Garbage Collector?

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 20:21:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 20:13:58 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>> Both of these, however, show only that he doesn't seem to 
>> personally like multiple pointer types (and consequently 
>> doesn't seem to have any interest in working on them himself); 
>> that's not the same as him claiming that it "is a disaster" 
>> (in general, which is what you were implying).
>
> There are other threads. This is a recurring topic...

I am aware...

>
>> What you consider not pointless is your business, again, but 
>> if you don't try to get it in the core language, you have no 
>> foundation to complain that's it's not in there.
>
> There are no example I know of where something has gone into 
> the D language that is going against the aesthetics Walter 
> value... Which isn't surprising.
>
> There are also few examples of new features going in at the 
> language level based on external DIPs. Do you have any good 
> examples? (Not standard lib, but language features).

I myself know of no examples where people have actually done the 
work up to and including the point where there were no technical 
issues left and were then rejected.