Isolated by example

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On Friday, 2 May 2014 at 18:32:13 UTC, Dylan Knutson wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but this seems really similar to 
> how Rust does owned pointers and move semantics. Or is there a 
> large conceptual difference between the two that I'm missing?
>
> I believe that the issues that people are bringing up with bad 
> interaction with UFCS, and losing isolated data after passing 
> it to a function, are managed in Rust with the notion of a 
> borrowed pointers. Perhaps something analogous to this could 
> accompany the `isolated` idea?

I don't think bolting Rust's type system onto D is a viable 
option at this point.