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Re:A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C# by munificent on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:34PM (#42011221)
> If you could even just pass an array of objects to be collected or something

If you have a bunch of objects in an array that you have a reference to such that you can pass it, then, by definition, those objects are not garbage, since they're still accessible to the program.

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Re:A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C# by smaudet on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:42PM (#42011301)
Yes. Use a WriteOnlyArray or whatever, Semantics aside though...

There should be some middle ground between RAII and invoking Dispose/delete and full blown automatic GC.

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