On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 03:12:24 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
I don't know, but I assume it would have to be competitive with what Rust provides.
I think the Rust team found that implementing a sound borrow-checker was basically impossible without requiring lifetime annotations in some cases. So if D wanted to go down the Rust route, it'd have to be willing to add new syntax for lifetime annotations (although these can apparently be inferred in most cases so aren't often required).
