Ownership and Borrowing in D

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Saturday, 20 July 2019 at 21:56:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/20/2019 5:42 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
>> Anyway my question is whether the ownership and borrowing 
>> semantics ever gets applied to non-pointers?
>
> Currently, no. The programmer would be expected to include the 
> correct copyctor/opAssign/destructors which would take care of 
> it.

Do you mean to keep track of ownership/borrowedness manually? 
Sure, that will work. But how would I then get the compiler to 
complain when a borrowed one outlives the owned one?