Interesting PRs: bringing type system legitimacy to shared allocators

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/27/2017 07:12 PM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 20:04:32 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
>> On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 19:57:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5355
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> And then we'd probably need INoGCAllocator and ISharedNOGCAllocator...
>
> Wasn't one major selling point of compile time introspection / duck
> typing that we could stop using interfaces such... naming schemes?

The allocators design is interesting in that it has a full DbI core, on 
top of which resides a thin dynamically-type interface (IAllocator and 
ISharedAllocator). We're still exploring the idioms enabled by this 
interaction. -- Andrei