RFC: scope and borrowing

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Now that there are again several GC related topics being 
discussed, I thought I'd bump this thread.

Would be nice if Walter and/or Andrei could have a look and share 
there opinions. Is this something worth pursuing further? Are 
there fundamental objections against it?

On Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 13:14:45 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> In the "Opportunities for D" thread, Walter again mentioned the 
> topics ref counting, GC, uniqueness, and borrowing, from which 
> a lively discussion developed [1]. I took this thread as an 
> opportunity to write down some ideas about these topics. The 
> result is a rather extensive proposal for the implementation of 
> borrowing, and its implementations:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Schuetzm/scope
>
> This is not a real DIP, but before I put more work into 
> formalizing it, I'd like to hear some thoughts from the 
> languages gurus here:
>
> * Is this the general direction we want to go? Is it acceptable 
> in general?
> * Is the proposal internally consistent?
> * How big would the effort to implement it be? (I suspect it's 
> a large amount of work, but relatively straightforward.)
>
> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lphnen$1ml7$1@digitalmars.com