What would break if class was merged with struct
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 27 11:33:36 PDT 2017
On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 18:21:41 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> Then please don't call them "smart", because that term is
> specifically reserved for something that adds at least some
> additional features over a regular pointer (bounds checking,
> memory / lifetime management, etc.).
"smart pointer" just means that it is a pointer wrapped in an
ADT. In this context it could provide allocation-information
would be one thing it could provide, or reference counting,
member access or whatever. The "smart" part was deliberately left
unspecified.
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