Garbage Collector?

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 28.04.2017 23:52, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:50:49PM +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>>> On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>>> «Back in the old DOS days, there were multiple pointer types (near
>>> and far). Programmers put up with that because it was the only way,
>>> but they HATED HATED HATED it.»
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>> It's true, we did. It was awful.
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> I remember working with that.  It was a royal PITA.
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I don't doubt that, but the implicit generalization is "multiple pointer 
types are necessarily always a royal PITA". Not true. scope has worse 
usability than a scoped pointer type.