Safe reference counting cannot be implemented as a library

bitwise via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 27 14:19:09 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 20:41:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 20:19:42 UTC, PuglyWUgly wrote:
>>  [...]
>
> Really? I've seen tons of C++ code that's written using smart 
> pointers with objects living on the heap which then get passed 
> around all over the place.
>
> [...]

I can't believe you actually took the time to dignify this with a 
response...but on the other hand, I previously had no opinion 
about @safety...But if its a reason to include language level ref 
counting, then I guess I'm all for it :)

    Bit


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