Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 14:54 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
> That's right. C++ is based on faith in the programmer using best
> practices. D is 
> not based on faith, it can be automatically checked.

"Can be" is not the same as "is". Perhaps all D compilers should
enforce the "can be" as "is", with options to switch it off if need be?
This is the route Rust is going, and it has great benefits exactly
because C and C++ do not do this. 

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Russel.
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