> It was proposed by Walter and denied by Stroustroup, probably to save C++.

Citation needed.

For starters, where is the paper?

Well, there's this list Stroustrup offers, of systems in C++ that he would reject: [0]

	▲	pjmlp 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		One vote, C++ isn't a BDFL driven language. Also WG14 famously killed Dennis Ritchie proposal to add fat pointers to C. Language authors only have symbolic value once they relish control to a standards body.