RFC: scope and borrowing

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On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 13:58:40 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
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> Now that there are again several GC related topics being 
> discussed, I thought I'd bump this thread.
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> 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:
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>> 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