C++17

bitwise via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 29 18:23:29 PST 2016


On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 11:08:41 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> On garbage collection:
>
> Bjarne Stroustrup (translated from danish): Yes, programming 
> language creators and researchers have always been fascinated 
> by garbage collection. I think that is a mistake: GC is not 
> general - it cannot deal with non-memory resources - and is not 
> ideal - it introduces a central facility in (otherwise) 
> distributed systems. The good solution is to not produce 
> garbage: http://www.stroustrup.com/resource-model.pdf . RAII is 
> central in my ideas about programming.
>

+ucent.max

Non-memory resource management.

I really hope something gets figured out with lifetimes this year.

     Bit


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