On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 21:21:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
To be fair, C++ effectively has multiple pointer types too with raw pointers, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr. However, each of the extra ones has a unique purpose and are opt-in. As a result, people happily use them when it makes their lives easier.
Yes, they are not language types though, so no special effect on the compiler or runtime. The language types are pointers, &references and &&references.
By contrast, C++/CLI (I'm more familiar with that than managed C++) has pointer to managed heap and pointer to unmanaged heap. The concepts overlap more.
Yes, and I assume those are language types so that the compiler and runtime can take advantage of it?
