On Borrow Checking

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Sun May 11 21:01:39 UTC 2025


On Sunday, 11 May 2025 at 18:23:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/11/2025 5:32 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 5/10/25 06:13, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> The @live design was done in a manner to not need any new 
>>> syntax - it is an extra layer of error checking.
>> 
>> That would be giving too much credit.
>
> This is why I stopped working on D's borrow checker. It's all 
> been relentlessly negative.

Isn't that the point of negative feedback? I mean people say 
"yeah thats crap, we dont want it" so you stop working on it.

The system works!

Might help to find a way to figure it out sooner tho, maybe some 
kind of proposal system where people could critique it before you 
waste your time doing all that work?


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