More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11 May 2014 17:52, Benjamin Thaut via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Am 06.05.2014 05:40, schrieb Manu via Digitalmars-d:
>
>> I support the notion that if the GC isn't removed as a foundational
>> feature of D, then destructors should probably be removed from D.
>>
>> That said, I really want my destructors, and would be very upset to
>> see them go. So... ARC?
>>
>
> I think ARC could work, but should be extended with some sort of ownership
> notation. Often a block of memory (e.g. an array of data) is exclusivly
> owned by a single object. So it would be absolutly uneccessary to reference
> count that block of memory. Instead I would want something like Rust has,
> borrowed pointers. (We actually already have that, "scope" but its not
> defined nor implemented for anything but delegates)

Indeed, I also imagine that implementation of 'scope' would allow for
a really decent ARC experience. D already has some advantages over
other languages, but that one would be big.