On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 14:20:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
I don't see how struct with a disabled copy constructor is relevant to owned pointers.
My thought is then you can control access to the inner pointer better that way. You couldn't even pass this struct to a function without calling some kind of method, which could return a different type to indicate that it is a lent pointer.
It also wouldn't need to be reference counted, since the refcount is always going to be 1 because copying it is impossible.
Most similar thing D has is "scope" qualifier concept (and that is why I do want it so hard :)) - hard guarantee that no pointer to your data will live longer than data itself. All normal pointers become managed pointers in that sense.
Yes, I'm just trying to do what we can with the language today.
