> On Aug 21, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Tim Horton via webkit-dev
> <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> One subtle thing is that even when a member variable is already Ref / RefPtr
>> / CheckedRef / CheckedPtr, we must create another one in stack as seen here:
>> https://commits.webkit.org/267108@main
>
> (I asked rniwa to send this mail because this patch surprised me, so I hope
> now we can chat about it).
>
> The scope of this rule, and the … lack of elegance … at so many callsites
> worries me a bit. If it’s possible to automate enforcement, that might help
> with part of the problem, but it’s also just really not very pretty, and I
> wonder if someone can come up with some clever alternative solution before we
> go too far down this path (not me!).
>
> Alternatively, it’s possible other people OK with this syntax/requirement and
> I should just get over it. What do you all think?
I hope we can make this better by using a getter function that returns a
CheckedPtr so instead of writing CheckedPtr { _page }, we would write page().
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