More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/12/2014 2:32 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> It's still forbidden. Andrei wrote a template that will verify this at
>> runtime, but I don't recall its name.
>
> Can you cite the spec where it says it's forbidden? Forgotten templates are not
> a convincing argument.
>
> Regardless, Java can use a moving GC, and allows self references. The idea that
> self references prevent a moving GC is simply false. If you think about it a
> bit, you will understand why.


I see this is not specified in the documentation. Not sure what happened here, 
but I'll have to think about it.