DIP1000: Scoped Pointers
Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 13 05:02:16 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 11:09:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Taking the address of a ref variable has not been allowed in
> @safe code for a long time.
Which is understandable given things as they are, but which could
probably be relaxed given good scope/lifetime analysis by the
compiler...?
>> The above code is unsafe only if the lifetime of `data`
>> outlives the lifetime of
>> `input`. Surely the new scope rules should be able to
>> distinguish the cases?
>> If that's already envisioned, how would that work?
>
> That depends on how the instance of MyWrapperStruct is
> allocated. How did you intend to allocate it?
As a normal stack variable. Is that problematic? And if not, what
would be problematic cases?
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