>________________________________ > From: Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> > > >Or if you want the exact semantics of Rust unique pointers, why not just >stack allocate, because every statically sized owned object can be stack >allocated!: > >[snip] > > >Speaking of which, a proper polymorphic region system subsumes borrowed >pointers as well. So, now, can somebody explain to me again what the unique >pointer concept is actually good for? > >As I understood it, unique pointers could be transferred to another task, >transferring the ownership of the allocation (and recursively all things >pointed to by it) to the other task: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html#communication-between-tasks Alex
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