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evincarofautumn / kitten

A statically typed concatenative systems programming language.

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Resource types #119

Closed evincarofautumn closed 7 years ago

evincarofautumn commented 10 years ago

For tracking and enforcing the semantics of resources:

Whether a resource is copyable
Whether it must be consumed
Whether it must be disposed before another resource
Whether to dispose it or leak it to a caller (say)

gilbert commented 7 years ago

What are your thoughts on this? I'm working on a concatenative language and am considering tracking similar properties.

evincarofautumn commented 7 years ago

I’m going to have some smart pointer types (Owned<T>, Shared<T>) and enforce usage by restricting copies and drops using traits. #156 has some thoughts on that. I closed this because it’s old and I’m going to add that stuff when I do the ctor/dtor implementation anyway. Feel free to ask any other questions on that issue.