On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 11:48:50 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote:
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 10:06:06 UTC, Nemanja Boric
wrote:
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 09:10:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[...]
The @__future is fully (to a reasonable degree) implemented -
and the `Throwable.message` was marked with this attribute to
prevent breaking the user code when introducing this field,
and it probably can just be removed from there at this point
(since many releases have been released).
[...]
Interesting quote from Martin on that PR:
With regards to Throwable.message we agreed on making it one
of the first users of an upcoming reference counted string.
Details on the design of the reference counted string first to
be discussed on dlang-study.
If in theory D had all the memory-safety features to make this
work (think what languages like Rust have with linear/affine
types [0] [1]) along with the necessary library implementations
of smart pointers, RC-aware slicing, etc..., I would still prefer
the sink-based approach in this situation, as it's much more
elegant in my opinion.
[0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?LinearTypes
[1]: https://www.tweag.io/posts/2017-03-13-linear-types.html
