RFC: moving forward with @nogc Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/1/14, 6:52 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 08:55:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/30/14, 9:10 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this for exposition purposes or actually how you expect it to work?
>>
>> That's pretty much what it would take. The key here is that RCString
>> is almost a drop-in replacement for string, so the code using it is
>> almost identical. There will be places where code needs to be
>> replaced, e.g.
>>
>> auto s = "literal";
>>
>> would need to become
>>
>> S s = "literal";
>>
>> So creation of strings will change a bit, but overall there's not a
>> lot of churn.
>
> I'm confused.  Is this a general-purpose solution or just one that
> switches between string and RCString?

General purpose since your suggested change. -- Andrei