DIP60: @nogc attribute

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On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 15:48:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Ola Fosheim Grøstad:
>
>> Where this falls apart is when you introduce a compacting GC 
>> and the @nogc code is run in a real time priority thread. Then 
>> you need both @nogc_function_calls and @nogc_memory .
>
> Perhaps the @nogc proposal is not flexible enough. So probably 
> the problem needs to be looked from a higher distance to find a 
> smarter and more flexible solution. Koka and other ideas 
> appeared in this thread can be seeds for ideas.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Reason why @nogc is desired in general is because it is 
relatively simple and can be done right now. That alone buts it 
above all ideas with alternate GC implementation and/or major 
type system tweaks.

It only needs some tweaks to make it actually useful for 
common-enoough practical cases.