On 1/31/2017 11:32 AM, Nordlöw wrote:
On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 19:26:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:This "as if" thing enables the designer of a function API to set the desired relationships even if the implementation is doing some deviated preversion with the data (i.e. a ref counted object).Why is this feature used? Optimizations? Safety?
So ref counted containers can be built.
