[Dlang-internal] DIP1000 discussion and testing
Walter Bright via Dlang-internal
dlang-internal at puremagic.com
Sun Dec 18 10:09:31 PST 2016
BTW, Rust is a system with annotations that can be applied at any level. Yet it
still needs @system code for many data structures (any with cycles in it).
Rust's system also (so I've read) requires one to re-architect data structures.
It's not remotely a matter of just adding annotations.
That alone makes it unacceptable for D.
D's 'return scope' system covers routine coding use. More complex things can be
encapsulated in @trusted code. I believe this is the sweet spot that will make
it easy to transition to, use and be effective.
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It's true that I've repeatedly had problems explaining how it works to you,
Andrei, Dicebot and Mathias. I can only infer that having a much more complex
system, which scope as a type constructor would be, would be infinitely worse. I
find the prospect of debugging a data structure with 'scope' sprinkled around on
random edges in it to be terrifying (as well as a combinatorial template
instantiation explosion problem).
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