On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 11:09:28 UTC, NX wrote:
On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 10:29:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
What makes it impossible to have ref counted classes?
Nothing.
Then why do we need DIP74 ?
I think they aim for compiler optimizations, like ARC on Swift.
But ARC requires all ref counting to be done behind the scene, so
I think it is a bad idea for D to be honest.
And why documentation says RefCounted doesn't work with classes?
I don't use Phobos much. I think RefCounted creates a wrapper for
an embedded struct or something. Something like struct { int
refcount; T payload; }
Nothing prevents you from creating your own reference counting
mechanism.
