More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 21:29:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 5/1/14, 1:19 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 5/1/14, 12:52 PM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
>>>>>> into a class. I'm inclined to say that we should outright 
>>>>>> prohibit that,
>>>>>
>>>>> That can't happen.
>>>>
>>>> Why is that?
>>>
>>> (1) Too much breakage, (2) would disallow a ton of correct 
>>> code, (3)
>>> no reasonable alternative to propose. We'd essentially hang 
>>> our users
>>> out to dry. -- Andrei
>>
>> Isn't this what we're already doing by (eventually) getting 
>> rid of class
>> dtors?
>
> Not even close. (1) A lot less breakage, (2) disallowed code 
> was already not guaranteed to work, (3) reasonable alternatives 
> exist.
>
> Andrei

I have 165k lines of code to review for that change... I would 
not call it a minor breakage...

/Paolo