My Reference Safety System (DIP???)
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Tue Mar 3 04:20:27 PST 2015
On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 20:40:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 20:36:53 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> Interesting approach. I will have to think about that. But I
>> think it does not really work. Your example hides the fact
>> that there are actually two types involved (or can be): an RC
>> wrapper, and the actual class. foo() would need to take at
>> least `c1` as the wrapper type `RC!C`, not `C` itself,
>> otherwise it couldn't copy it. But that defeats the purpose of
>> borrowing, that it neutralizes the actual memory management
>> strategy; foo() should know whether `c1` is reference counted
>> or not.
>
> Please reread. I'm assuming a refcounting system like Andrei's
> proposal for objects.
Then you're in the wrong thread ;-)
>
> The result would be the same for a RefCounted wrapper (a
> solution that I would prefer) in the sense you'd have to copy
> the wrapper to get ownership of it before being able to assign
> to it.
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