More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 16:03:06 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 5/1/14, 12:52 PM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
>>>> into a class. I'm inclined to say that we should outright prohibit  
>>>> that,
>>>
>>> That can't happen.
>>
>> Why is that?
>
> (1) Too much breakage, (2) would disallow a ton of correct code, (3) no  
> reasonable alternative to propose. We'd essentially hang our users out  
> to dry. -- Andrei

class C
{
    void finalizer();
    private struct S {
      C owner;
      ~this() {
         owner.finalize();
      }
    }
    private S s;
}

You aren't helping anything.

-Steve