D gc on local objects

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 16 10:14:54 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 16:51:57 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> This is one of the things the `scope` storage class on local 
> variables can do, but since it isn't implemented properly, it 
> is not memory safe and thus its usage is deprecated.
>
> I really really really want to see scope be fully implemented, 
> including not allowing a reference to the variable to escape 
> the scope, but this is easier said than done.

I would love to have a "scope" that works properly, with or 
without blade-guards to stop me chopping off my hands when the 
function returns.


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