On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 23:42:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/31/2017 11:32 AM, Nordlöw wrote:
On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 19:26:51 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
This "as if" thing enables the designer of a function API to
set the desired
relationships even if the implementation is doing some
deviated preversion
with the data (i.e. a ref counted object).
Why is this feature used? Optimizations? Safety?
So ref counted containers can be built.
As long as they don't use a tree or any other datastructure that
require more than one level of indirection internally.
