DIP69 - Implement scope for escape proof references

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 December 2014 at 22:05:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> > forms can work, too.
>> No, unless we wrap every single indirection (pointer, slice, 
>> classes, delegates)
>> into a wrapper. That is not going to fly very far.
>
> The beauty of GC is that you don't have to do any of this. To 
> have safe other methods of allocation, there has to be 
> annotation everywhere or use a wrapped type in the same places.

The whole point of scope is to reduce that cost, both in term of
runtime (as copy can be elided) but also on the user.