Prototype of Ownership/Borrowing System for D

Fri Nov 22 06:08:51 UTC 2019

On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 04:55:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/21/2019 4:28 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Why would you wait until runtime when the compiler can do it 
>> at compile time?
>
> The antecedent said "it forces you to check a pointer
> before you dereference it"

You usually have an escape like "object!.memberfunction()" that 
tells the compiler that the programmer is certain that he does 
the right thing.