On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 06:01:29 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
Beyond my pay grade, but looks to me like study group is
devoted to just this kind of question
It's not just devoted to this *kind* of question - it's devoted
to this *exact* question. It was formed explicitly for the
purpose of trying to work out an acceptable solution to the
reference-counting safety problem.
and in response to observation that this is something very
important to get right and very difficult the discussion is
beginning
"Starting over" or maybe even "sidetracking" would be more
accurate - quite a lot of other stuff got posted in the study
group before the RCString thing came up. No consensus was
emerging, hence the reset.
with a simpler but important (there were some stats on chrome
that were quite shocking) problem of how to do RC strings.
If there's one area where you shouldn't just accept patches
this surely must be it !
True. It's a hard problem, especially since they're shooting for
making safe RC a non-breaking change.
And I don't see the people that are grumbling participating in
the study group...
? But some of them are. The grumbling over RC is a reflection of
how hard the problem is to solve, not a collective unwillingness
to contribute code on the part of either side.
