More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 14:29:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/5/14, 11:07 PM, HaraldZealot wrote:
>> I have to say that all this discussion (more precisely the 
>> understanding
>> on the side of key developers) make me very upset.
>
> This is a misunderstanding of the situation. This is 
> brainstorming. There has to be a public place in which ideas 
> can be discussed freely, no matter how radical. Otherwise we'd 
> need to create a cabal and only present finalized decisions to 
> the public. We can't get to a community censorship so strong so 
> as to disallow unencumbered discussion of radical ideas. All 
> those who got up in arms about this thread, I compel you to 
> reconsider.
>
> Andrei

+1

with(devilsAdvocateMode)
{
    I think people are a bit used to the situation you describe,
    hence the misunderstanding w.r.t. the approach you're trying
    here
}