Opportunities for D
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Wed Jul 9 03:27:49 PDT 2014
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 02:44:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/8/2014 6:01 PM, Mike wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 21:22:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Ref Counting
>>>
>>> I believe that ARC is a pipe dream for D, as we've discussed
>>> extensively here.
>>> But a ref counted object should work, and would be very
>>> attractive, much like
>>> C++'s shared_ptr<T>.
>>
>> How does this differ from std.typecons.RefCounted?
>
> Let me put it this way: users all complain that D doesn't have
> ref counting. If typecons.RefCounted works, why is this
> happening? What can be done to convince people that D does ref
> counting? If it doesn't work, what needs to be done to fix it?
For me the simple "works or not" test question is "can you do
reference counted exceptions?". Right now it is impossible AFAIK.
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