On 2/24/15 1:33 PM, Ivan Timokhin wrote:
Is there any plan to allow safe conversions to T[] (in restricted circumstances, of course)?
We'd want to avoid it because that would necessitate the whole "scope" paraphernalia - e.g you can convert a reference counted slice to something like scope(T[]).
A possible option would be to allow the user to go "I want to use GC with this slice from now on" which gives back the T[] and lets the GC take care of it.
But generally I think we should let reference counted slices and built-in slices coexist. Generic range-based code is easy to write so factoring the nature of the slice away may be an option.
Andrei
