The "no gc" crowd

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Wed Oct 9 05:44:52 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 22:37:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/8/2013 9:22 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> It is simply "@nogc" which is lacking but absolutely
>> mandatory.
>
> Adding @nogc is fairly simple. The trouble, though, is (like 
> purity) it is transitive. Every function an @nogc function 
> calls will also have to be @nogc. This will entail a great deal 
> of work updating phobos/druntime to add those annotations.

Well I thought in current situation we are pretty much forced to 
go for attributed inference anyway - this problem is not @nogc 
specific.

(I actually think making permissive attributes/qualifiers default 
ones was a very early mistake)


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