D Language 2.0

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

BCS wrote:
> Hello Andrei,
> 
>> Well if we get into details we'll figure that things must be quite
>> different for different memory management models. For example Object
>> in ref-counted mode is not a class anymore, it's a struct. So now
>> there's going to be two parts in an app: those in which Object is a
>> class, and those in which Object is a struct. Reconciling those would
>> be a tall order.
> 
> I think we *are* taking about different things because that argument 
> doesn't hold for the -nogc I'm thinking of, ref counted objects are 
> still GCed objects, allocating them would also be disallows in a module 
> compiled under -nogc.

Yah, but say the module is calling a function in another module. Could 
that function allocate stuff? Then who's releasing it? Could that 
function return allocated stuff into the -nogc module? Then who's 
releasing that guy?


Andrei