On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 22:04:09 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/26/15 2:03 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
One of the first things that stood out to me is that "add ref"
is two
words and "release" is one. For the sake of symmetry, how
about these:
* opIncRef, opDecRef
* opAcquire, opRelease
All - please PLEASE do not derail this into yet another debate
about which names are best. -- Andrei
Using protocols rather than enforcing a particular implementation
is nice, but D needs to stop reinventing terminology and syntax
matters.
Acquire/Release:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff540496%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Retain/Release:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles/MemoryMgmt.html
AutoRelease pools / Drain:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSAutoreleasePool_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSAutoreleasePool/drain
Antonyms for "release":
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/release[verb]
