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

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On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 18:08:46 UTC, 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).

We are in 2014, and we have good source control. That will be 
fine.