On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 18:09, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, August 26, 2018 5:39:32 PM MDT Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > ARC? What ever happened to the opAddRef/opDecRef proposal? Was it > > rejected? Is it canned, or is it just back on the bench? (GC is > > absolutely off the table for my project, I have no influence on this) > > I don't know what Walter's current plans are for what any built-in > ref-counting solution would look like, but it's my understanding that > whatever he was working on was put on hold, because he needed something like > DIP 1000 in order to make it work with @safe - which is what then triggered > his working on DIP 1000 like he has been. So, presumably, at some point > after DIP 1000 is complete and ready, he'll work on the ref-counting stuff > again. So, while we may very well get it, I expect that it will be a while.
I'm sure I recall experimental patches where those operators were available to try out... was I dreaming? :/
