In the "Opportunities for D" thread, Walter again mentioned the
topics ref counting, GC, uniqueness, and borrowing, from which a
lively discussion developed [1]. I took this thread as an
opportunity to write down some ideas about these topics. The
result is a rather extensive proposal for the implementation of
borrowing, and its implementations:
http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Schuetzm/scope
This is not a real DIP, but before I put more work into
formalizing it, I'd like to hear some thoughts from the languages
gurus here:
* Is this the general direction we want to go? Is it acceptable
in general?
* Is the proposal internally consistent?
* How big would the effort to implement it be? (I suspect it's a
large amount of work, but relatively straightforward.)
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
