Safe reference counting cannot be implemented as a library

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/28/2015 7:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/28/2015 04:13 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-10-27 22:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> That doesn't seem to be the case at all. -- Andrei
>>
>> I'm not a C++ or Rust expert. But I think that in Rust and with the new
>> C++ guide lines the idea is to use reference counting pointers only for
>> owning resources. If you want to pass the data to some of part of the
>> code, that does not need to own the resource, a raw pointer should be used.
>
> Problem with that is in C++ it's just unsafe and in Rust it's requires too much
> work from the programmer. We don't think either style is best for D. -- Andrei
>
>

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