Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 2/5/2014 10:31 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/5/14, 12:03 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> If that's so, then I'd think lib authors could easily provide APIs that
>> offer GC by default and ARC as an opt-in choice with templating:
>>
>> enum WantARC { Yes, No }
>> auto getFoo(WantARC arc = WantARC.No)() {
>>      static if(arc == WantARC.No)
>>          return getFoo().toGC();
>>      else {
>>      RCSlice!T x = ...;
>>          return x;
>>      }
>> }
>
> Nice. Though I'd say just return RC strings and let the client call
> toGC. They'd need to specify WantArc.No anyway so one way or another the
> user has to do something.
>

Note the default parameter of WantARC.No. Therefore:

// GC:
T[] fooGC = getFoo();  // Nothing special specified

// ARC:
RCSlice!T = getFoo!(WantARC.Yes)();

Or am I missing something?