Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Walter Bright]

On 2/2/2014 1:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/2/14, 12:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> One of the big problems with a type constructor is we've already got a
>> number of them - const, immutable, shared, inout.
>
> This post is confused, sorry. const, immutable, shared, inout are qualifiers (in
> addition to being type constructors). General type constructors don't have a
> particular combinatorial problem.

Yes, I used the wrong term.