what is the aftermath of dip74

Ferhat Kurtulmuş aferust at gmail.com
Wed May 10 18:23:15 UTC 2023


On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 18:15:36 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> We do not, no.
>
> Reference counting is not currently in the language, although 
> you can fake it with structs.
>
> Its a huge shame, but it should be added at some point because 
> the compiler would tell the backend that it is possible to 
> elide pair calls.
>
> However it'll have to wait for the DIP queue to reopen (slight 
> process adjustment to make things easier is incoming).

Thank you Rikki for the clarification. I think d need this 
without ugly workarounds.


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