On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:42:55 -0500, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
auto x = fun().toGC();
Recently I remember Kenji saying that we are now almost able to
implement "dup" in library code. If that happens, why don't you call it
"dup"?
No, toGC does not create a copy. It just detaches the RC component, and
relies on GC to clean up the resulting slice (I assume
typeof(fun().toGC()) == T[])
dup would imply that you wanted a copy in addition to the
reference-counted version. In fact, you may want a copy that is also
reference counted.
-Steve
