On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 02:44:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2014 6:01 PM, Mike wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 21:22:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
1. Ref Counting
I believe that ARC is a pipe dream for D, as we've discussed
extensively here.
But a ref counted object should work, and would be very
attractive, much like
C++'s shared_ptr<T>.
How does this differ from std.typecons.RefCounted?
Let me put it this way: users all complain that D doesn't have
ref counting. If typecons.RefCounted works, why is this
happening? What can be done to convince people that D does ref
counting? If it doesn't work, what needs to be done to fix it?
I think the problem is that people like to have reference
semantics for ressources but only struct support deterministic
destruction, and are value types..
If Unique and RefCounted were a bit more usable people interested
in deterministic release (ie. almost everyone) could drop using
classes for resources and live happily.
