On 9/30/14, 7:05 AM, Foo wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 13:59:23 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/30/14, 6:38 AM, Foo wrote:
I hate the fact that this will produce template bloat for each
function/method.
I'm also in favor of "let the user pick", but I would use a global
variable:
----
enum MemoryManagementPolicy { gc, rc, mrc }
immutable
gc = ResourceManagementPolicy.gc,
rc = ResourceManagementPolicy.rc,
mrc = ResourceManagementPolicy.mrc;
auto RMP = gc;
----
and in my code:
----
RMP = rc;
string str = "foo"; // compiler knows -> ref counted
// ...
RMP = gc;
string str2 = "bar"; // normal behaviour restored
----
This won't work because the type of "string" is different for RC vs.
GC. -- Andrei
But it would work for phobos functions without template bloat.
How is the fact there's less bloat relevant for code that doesn't work?
I.e. it doesn't compile. It needs to return string for GC and RCString
for RC.
Andrei
