borrowed pointers vs ref

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 04:07 +0000, logicchains via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> This sounds a bit like an 'issue' of sorts that Rust has with 
> borrowed pointers, where certain types of datastructures cannot 
> be written without resorting to the 'unsafe' parts of the 
> language. The solution they've adopted is having such code 
> written in libraries so that the user doesn't have to mess around 
> with 'unsafe'.

Probably re-finding many of the things people have to use
sun.misc.Unsafe for on the JVM. 

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