D Language 2.0

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el 20 de enero a las 19:13 me escribiste:
>> 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.
> 
> Having half the runtime in object.d is not practical, come on! object.d
> was supposed to be the file defining the Object class, that's it!

It doesn't have to contain the runtime, only the entry points to it.

Andrei