More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/12/2014 06:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/12/2014 5:15 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 05/12/2014 10:54 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 5/11/2014 10:57 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
>>>> Am Sun, 11 May 2014 17:50:25 -0700
>>>> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> As long as those pointers don't escape. Am I right in that one cannot
>>>>> store a
>>>>> borrowed pointer into a global data structure?
>>>>
>>>> Right, and that's the point and entirely positive-to-do™.
>>>
>>> This means that a global data structure in Rust has to decide what
>>> memory allocation scheme its contents must use,
>>
>> Global variables are banned in Rust code outside of unsafe blocks.
>
> Global can also mean assigning through a reference passed as a parameter.
>

Do you mean the table is not actually global but passed by parameter, or 
that the global table is accessed in unsafe code and then passed by 
parameter or something else?