Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 01:11:30 UTC 2018


On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 18:09, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, August 26, 2018 5:39:32 PM MDT Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >   ARC? What ever happened to the opAddRef/opDecRef proposal? Was it
> > rejected? Is it canned, or is it just back on the bench? (GC is
> > absolutely off the table for my project, I have no influence on this)
>
> I don't know what Walter's current plans are for what any built-in
> ref-counting solution would look like, but it's my understanding that
> whatever he was working on was put on hold, because he needed something like
> DIP 1000 in order to make it work with @safe - which is what then triggered
> his working on DIP 1000 like he has been. So, presumably, at some point
> after DIP 1000 is complete and ready, he'll work on the ref-counting stuff
> again. So, while we may very well get it, I expect that it will be a while.

I'm sure I recall experimental patches where those operators were
available to try out... was I dreaming? :/


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