More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

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On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 20:03:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
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

(1) is made of turbo lol. A huge amount of binding to C++ lib 
rely on destructor. The breakage in the proposal is already 
massive. For instance, GtkD won't work. And other example have 
been presented.