DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2 (Copy and Move Semantics)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/12/13 5:10 AM, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> On 2013-05-12, 08:12, deadalnix wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 22:24:38 UTC, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
>>> I'm not convinced. unique, like const or immutable, is transitive. If
>>> foo
>>> is unique, then so is foo.bar.
>>>
>>
>> That isn't true. Please read microsoft's paper.
>
> Done. *Mostly* transitive, then. Anything reachable through a unique
> reference is either unique or immutable.

Bartosz, Walter and I reached a similar design a few years ago. We just 
thought it complicates things too much for what it does.

Andrei