logical const idea - scratchspace

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:56:37 -0400, Alex Rønne Petersen
<xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14-05-2012 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

>> It also should be recommended that the scratch space not contain any GC
>> pointers, since it's *not* participating in the type system properly,
>> the GC may not treat it as a pointer.
>
> That renders it useless for caching e.g. a string though...

Yes, it does.  Unless you know the size of the string (so you can allocate
enough scratch space to hold it).

It's not perfect, for sure.  But it might be better than nothing...

-Steve