draft proposal for ref counting in D

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 >
 > On 6/25/2013 6:31 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
 >> And finally, there's nothing unsafe with autorelease pools as long as you 
don't keep an unretained reference to an autoreleased object when the pool drains.
 >
 > Well, that's exactly the issue - an escaping reference.
 >

Read the next sentence after your quote though:

"Making sure you have no unretained reference is ARC's job, so with ARC it 
should not be no problem."

So with ARC, it's not unsafe.  I think that was the ultimate point.

-Steve