[Dlang-study] [lifetime] Initial thoughts on lifetime management

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/28/2015 04:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Another option is, when doing an assignment to an rc handle, and the ref
> count goes to zero, to not delete the rc object, but to hand it to the
> garbage collector to eventually reap.

Two matters:

1. Planning to let objects leak seems like a cop-out if we find 
ourselves in front of an insoluble problem. So it's at best an escape 
trap, but I'd very much suggest we don't rely on it throughout this 
discussion.

2. This won't work with non-GC allocators - it'll just leak.


Andrei