More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/12/2014 5:15 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 05/12/2014 10:54 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/11/2014 10:57 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
>>> Am Sun, 11 May 2014 17:50:25 -0700
>>> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
>>>
>>>> As long as those pointers don't escape. Am I right in that one cannot
>>>> store a
>>>> borrowed pointer into a global data structure?
>>>
>>> Right, and that's the point and entirely positive-to-do™.
>>
>> This means that a global data structure in Rust has to decide what
>> memory allocation scheme its contents must use,
>
> Global variables are banned in Rust code outside of unsafe blocks.

Global can also mean assigning through a reference passed as a parameter.