Challenge: write a reference counted slice that works as much as possible like a built-in slice

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 09:24:17 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 10 November 2021 at 13:52:26 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 18:33:01 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I think that C++'s greatest gift to the world was the 
>> destructor. We have those too! Let's use them.
>>
>
> Indeed, but I have unfortunate news. We broke the gift. In D, 
> object can be destroyed without being constructed first.
>
> Consider: https://godbolt.org/z/EdW75jWGn
>
> This is the first problem we need to fix here, if we don't want 
> to have to plaster our code with runtime checks.

`@disable this();`, but you knew that. It's true that requiring a 
programmer to do something to prevent bugs is a terrible idea. 
Sigh.


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