On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 17:24:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 17:19:48 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 17:02:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The class reference type should be fixable with a rewrite
into templated smart pointers, so no need for big changes
there, I think.
Smart pointers impose a specific object lifetime, whereas (D)
classes do not. You cannot lower (D) class instances to smart
pointers.
In this context smart pointers are just pointers that aren't
raw pointers, e.g. alias this or something.
Then please don't call them "smart", because that term is
specifically reserved for something that adds at least some
additional features over a regular pointer (bounds checking,
memory / lifetime management, etc.).
