D Language 2.0

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el 20 de enero a las 17:39 me escribiste:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> Danny Wilson, el 20 de enero a las 16:44 me escribiste:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:18:52 +0100, Leandro Lucarella
>>>> <llucax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Again? RC is *not* -nogc, is -anothergc. And reference counting won't do
>>>>> the trick unless you add a backing GC to free cycles. What I mean about
>>>>> -nogc is *no* GC, is "please, mr compiler, give me an error when a GC
>>>>> facility is used".
>>>> I guess a custom object.d  which static asserts as soon as a GC
>>>> facility is used would do that trick?
>>> I don't see how you can do that, all the code calling the GC is in the
>>> runtime AFAIK.
>> Things can be arranged such that all calls originate in object.d.
> 
> But that would mean moving a lot of funcionality from the runtime to
> object.d, which doesn't seems to be practical.

Well someone needs to do it to assess practicality and other consequences.

Andrei