Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, August 26, 2018 7:11:30 PM MDT Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 18:09, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
>
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, August 26, 2018 5:39:32 PM MDT Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > >   ARC? What ever happened to the opAddRef/opDecRef proposal? Was it
> > >
> > > rejected? Is it canned, or is it just back on the bench? (GC is
> > > absolutely off the table for my project, I have no influence on this)
> >
> > I don't know what Walter's current plans are for what any built-in
> > ref-counting solution would look like, but it's my understanding that
> > whatever he was working on was put on hold, because he needed something
> > like DIP 1000 in order to make it work with @safe - which is what then
> > triggered his working on DIP 1000 like he has been. So, presumably, at
> > some point after DIP 1000 is complete and ready, he'll work on the
> > ref-counting stuff again. So, while we may very well get it, I expect
> > that it will be a while.
> I'm sure I recall experimental patches where those operators were
> available to try out... was I dreaming? :/

I have no idea. AFAIK, Walter didn't make any changes related to
ref-counting public, and I have no idea whether he got very far along with
it at all, but I also haven't been watching everything he does in
anticipation for such a feature. So, I could easily have missed something.

- Jonathan M Davis