Add a chapter to the Language Guide for Ownership #385
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This is an early draft of a chapter on Ownership for the Language Guide. So far it only includes noncopyable types, but will later cover non escapable types as well, including a description of
Span
.I am slightly torn about the example to use. The file example is already used in the classes chapter. A better example would be the implementation of a Box type using unsafe pointers, but this would be a departure from the rest of the book.
This addition will eventually also need to rework other chapters, including where it's stated that only classes can have deinitializers, and to downscope the coverage of
~
in the protocols chapter slightly, moving some of that content here but keeping a brief description with a forward reference.Escapable
Span