D language and .NET platform

ProHeckler ph2030 at yourfuture.com
Mon Jul 30 00:37:28 PDT 2012


David Piepgrass wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 16:32:10 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
> wrote:
>> On 29-07-2012 17:36, bearophile wrote:
>>>> .NET is too limited to represent the language,
>>> Can you tell us why?
>> 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).
>
> D is theoretically designed

That is to say it is non-designed.




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