Re: DIP74: Reference Counted Class Objects

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/28/15 6:49 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

On 1 March 2015 at 12:21, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On 2/28/15 5:43 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

I'd like to see a struct with RC operators have implicit calls
generated (and elided) for exactly the same set of cases as classes,
in terms of construction/destruction/assignment/passing to/from
functions.

The short answer is that probably won't happen. -- Andrei

*sigh* ... ever, or in DIP74?

In the foreseeable future.

I presented my 80% case to you before. I just want this to work efficiently:

extern(C) void inc(void*);
extern(C) void dec(void*);

struct X
{
   void *thing;

   opInc() { inc(thing); }
   opDec() { dec(thing); }
}

struct X
{
  void *thing;

  this(this) { inc(thing); }
  ~this() { dec(thing); }
}


Andrei