Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/23/14, 11:08 AM, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 16:18:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The offer was in the context of a feature that was being rejected. --
>> Andrei
>
> Walter *has* said before that he's uncomfortable with tools that
> directly modify source code, which is understandable. A good suggestion
> was to not directly modify the source, but produce a patch file that can
> be used by any merge tool (and maybe an option to directly modify a file
> if someone really wants to).

I've been at a conference where Pike spoke about gofix. He convinced me 
it's a very valuable tool. -- Andrei