dmd 1.057 and 2.041 release

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:11 -0500, David Gileadi <foo at bar.com> wrote:

> On 3/9/2010 12:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:36:41 -0500, Michal Minich
>> <michal.minich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> assumeNoArrayReference does not express that there can be references to
>>> the original array before slice start. probably better expressing, if
>>> rather long name could be
>>
>> Actually, you can have valid references up until the slice end.
>>
>>> assumeNoOriginArrayReferencesPastSliceEnd
>>> assumeNoOriginArrayReferencesAfter
>>
>> These are too long. As much as this is an unsafe to-be-used-with-care
>> function, we don't want to torture those who need it :) I prefer a name
>> with 1-3 terms in it.
>>
>>> or probably somthing like this:
>>> unsafeDeletePastSlice
>>
>> also a little long, and I don't like the term delete, it's not actually
>> deleting the memory.
>
> As long as we're bikeshedding, maybe assumeUnreferencedAfter?

This is exactly the semantic meaning we are going for.  I'd like it to be  
shorter...

synonyms for unreferenced?

assumeUnusedAfter

Any others ideas?

-Steve