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

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 02:16:32 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 25 September 2014 08:54, Andrei Alexandrescu via 
> Digitalmars-d
>>> It's what I use now, and it's as good at C++, but we can do 
>>> much
>>> better than that.
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>> D's copy semantics are different from C++'s.
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> I don't see how that influences this.

For one, it allows to turn copy+destruction into a move, e.g. for 
tail calls.

>>> I'm also not convinced meaningful refcounting can be 
>>> implemented
>>> before we have scope(T) working properly. I think we should be
>>> addressing that first.
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>> That may as well be true.
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> Shall we declare this a decisive area of development and start 
> a conversation?
> I particularly liked the proposal in the other thread, until it
> transformed into a storage class.

Please note that I'm not opposed to turn it back into a type 
modifier. I just don't understand your problems enough to form an 
opinion on it, and as long as that is the case, it's not a good 
idea to switch it back and forth, especially since it brings 
along its own problems. Please post a create example where a 
storage class fails (in the other thread).