References in D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/17/12 1:15 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>
>> Our position is that NonNull is only one of several instances of a
>> much more general pattern, which can be addressed with @disable once
>> it is properly tracked inside constructors.
>
> It's an iterative process: some people invent a feature and put in a
> language, others find it partially implementable in libraries and/or
> useful if generalized. Later someone maybe finds that one of the library
> constructs is so commonly used that adding some built-in sugar (like a
> trailing @) makes code shorter and nicer, and so on and on :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

That sounds nice but it turns out it's not the way @disable came about.

Andrei