More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

w0rp via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 6 11:02:56 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:00:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/5/2014 11:39 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> There's a perfectly good pull there for 
>> not-virtual-by-default. No
>> amount of beating will get that horse through, despite almost
>> unanimous community support. That was... extremely 
>> discouraging, to
>> say the least.
>
> If you look, I have authored some pull requests that I think 
> are very good, but are twisting in the wind and have for some 
> time. Andrei has some, too. We all do.
>
> I understand that we'd all like our efforts to find quick 
> approval and karma, but it isn't always going to happen, and we 
> need to not let that discourage us.

Generally, championing something you believe in tends to require 
a great deal of personal effort into trying to make it a reality.


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