Ownership and Borrowing in D

[Timon Gehr]

On 23.07.19 10:20, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 at 04:02:50 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 21.07.19 02:17, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 7/20/2019 3:39 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
>>>> Do you mean to keep track of ownership/borrowedness manually?
>>>
>>> No, that's what the copyctor/opAssign/dtor semantics so.
>>
>> This is not true.
> 
> I thought as much. Thanks for the confirmation. I am considering moving 
> to pointers to benefit from the future semantics. It's just that I don't 
> like pointers that much...

I think tying ownership/borrowing semantics to pointers instead of 
structs makes no sense; it's not necessary and it's not sufficient. Your 
use case illustrates why it is not sufficient.