DIP25 draft available for destruction

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/6/13 5:26 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 07:38:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Probably it'll need a fair amount of tweaking. Anyhow it's in
>> destroyable form.
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I'm not sure why it's trying to safe-up pointers.
>
> Disallowing the & operator on stack variables is going to cause code
> breakage of unprecedented proportions (probably biggest since strings
> where made immutable), I know I use it a LOT in my projects,
> particularly when interfacing with C libraries or making slices to stack
> memory. Also, shoving the burden of performance onto the GC for the
> common case seems like a particularly bad choice considering the current
> state of the art. Pointers are relatively rare in D; when users take the
> address of a local variable, it's for a good reason.

I think it stands to reason that we should pull back a little bit and 
only tighten that particular screw in @safe code.

Andrei