D language and .NET platform

Alex Rønne Petersen alex at lycus.org
Sun Jul 29 09:32:08 PDT 2012


On 29-07-2012 17:36, bearophile wrote:
> Alex Rønne Petersen:
>
>> .NET is too limited to represent the language,
>
> Can you tell us why?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Array slices. The .NET type system has no way to represent them because 
it's designed for precise GC, and array slices allow interior pointers 
in the heap (as opposed to the stack when passing a field of an object 
by reference to a function, or whatever).

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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