Ehem, ARM

[Michel Fortin]

On 2013-11-15 14:02:20 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> On 2013-11-15 14:38, Michel Fortin wrote:
> 
>> You mean if Walter would accept D/Objective-C without ARC? No idea. Ask
>> him, or submit a pull request just to gauge the reaction.
> 
> No, I was referring to just implementing ARC like it's done in Objective-C.

I honestly don't think it can work much differently. You call retain 
and release at the right places. Extending it to other D types is just 
a matter of calling a different functions depending on the type. 
Objective-C has a couple of special cases for pointers to autoreleased 
objects, but that's just a couple more rules to add, and those should 
be kept specific to Objective-C types.

Weak pointers are a more difficult topic, but a separate one I'd say.

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