The "no gc" crowd

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/10/13 10:36 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 10/10/13 19:31, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I'm honestly surprised that Andrei is rejecting the idea of casting
>> to/from
>> shared or immutable being normal given how it's required by our current
>> concurrency model. And changing that would be a _big_ change.
>
> I'm starting to incline towards the view that type qualifications of
> _any_ kind become problematic once you start working with any types
> other than built-in, and not just in the context of concurrency.  See e.g.:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11148
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11188
>
> I'd really appreciate advice on how to handle issues like these, because
> it's becoming a serious obstacle to my work on std.rational.

I'll look into this soon.

Andrei