Dealing with the interior pointers bug

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 23 07:52:20 PDT 2017


On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 18:38 +0000, Boris-Barboris via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> […]
> 
> Casts are part of the type system. Yes, D type system allows 
> invalid operations. It's not the compiler's fault, it's type 
> system's fault.
> […]

Well maybe casts should be allowed as they effectively break the type
system.

Sadly D2 has casts, so the type system is weak, so problems with GC
algorithms allowed.

Maybe it is time for D3, which is D2 and no casts.

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