Prevent struct going into heap memory

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 08:42:50 UTC 2025


On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 02:10:09 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> On 21/07/2025 2:03 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
>>     Problem is, some people believe it shouldn't. Hence this 
>> proposal to
>>     give those that want that "reliability" control to make it 
>> so.
>> 
>> If there are people who believe that (a) the struct instance 
>> should be allocated with the GC, but (b) the GC should not be 
>> responsible for its cleanup, then those people are wrong, 
>> plain and simple.
>
> Ah no, they don't like the GC introducing unreliability to the 
> cleanup.

"Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this".

The GC isn't even guaranteed to run, I don't know what the 
alternative would be.


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