Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Again? RC is *not* -nogc, is -anothergc.
I agree. With reference counting, you'd be no worse than a C++ project that decided to use refcounted smart pointers for all allocated objects. That sounds good to me.
And reference counting won't do the trick unless you add a backing GC to free cycles.
Well there are techniques for lifting cycles but really I think it wouldn't be bad if the user were given the possibility (e.g. weak pointers).
What I mean about -nogc is *no* GC, is "please, mr compiler, give me an error when a GC facility is used".
I know. That could be another object.d implementation that would @disable certain functions. The nice part about refcounting is that for the most part you don't need to cripple the language.
Andrei
