Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 21:02:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> You can hijack the function that does it with your own, and do 
> it how you like.

Or do some kind of functor thingy and pass the closed over 
variables manually.