Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:55:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky  
<SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:

> Limitations of the separate compilation model have come up before. For  
> example, the inability to retrieve all the subclasses of a base class.

This is not an issue that can be solved by removing separate compilation.  
Dynamically loading objects could easily add to or remove from this list  
at runtime.

-Steve