RFC: moving forward with @nogc Phobos

[Foo via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 13:59:23 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/30/14, 6:38 AM, Foo wrote:
>> I hate the fact that this will produce template bloat for each
>> function/method.
>> I'm also in favor of "let the user pick", but I would use a 
>> global
>> variable:
>>
>> ----
>> enum MemoryManagementPolicy { gc, rc, mrc }
>> immutable
>>     gc = ResourceManagementPolicy.gc,
>>     rc = ResourceManagementPolicy.rc,
>>     mrc = ResourceManagementPolicy.mrc;
>>
>> auto RMP = gc;
>> ----
>>
>> and in my code:
>>
>> ----
>> RMP = rc;
>> string str = "foo"; // compiler knows -> ref counted
>> // ...
>> RMP = gc;
>> string str2 = "bar"; // normal behaviour restored
>> ----
>
> This won't work because the type of "string" is different for 
> RC vs. GC. -- Andrei

But it would work for phobos functions without template bloat.