On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:02:05 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 4/22/2014 11:28 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:12:17 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com>
wrote:
On 4/22/2014 6:18 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:02:53 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com>
wrote:
The thing is, with iOS ARC, it cannot be statically guaranteed to be
memory
safe.
So?
If you see no value in static guarantees of memory safety, then what
can I say?
Seriously, the straw man arguments have to stop.
There is plenty of valuable D code that is not guaranteed memory safe.
Memory safety is not a strawman. It's a critical feature for a modern
language, and will become ever more important.
No, a straw man argument is when you imply that I am arguing from a
position that is similar to my actual position, but obviously flawed. Then
proceed to attack the straw man.
Example:
A: Sunny days are good.
B: If all days were sunny, we'd never have rain, and without rain,
we'd have famine and death.
At no time did I ever say I see no value in static guarantees of memory
safety. But I also see value in ref counting for performance and memory
purposes in NON memory-safe code.
-Steve
