RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/20/14, 12:48 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> I don't know yet what the ultimate impact of a -nogc switch would be on
> library maintenance, but I have a strong suspicion that simple wrapper
> modules and mixins wouldn't be enough to maintain compatibility. If
> there is even the slightest possibility that library maintainers will
> find themselves in that same situation of having to choose a or b
> because maintaining both is too troublesome to bother, then all the
> implications need to be hashed out beforehand.

We need to explore that. A possibility is to support coexistence and 
then have the option to use a tool statically pinpoint the uses of GC. 
-- Andrei