Sending an immutable object to a thread

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 19 July 2015 at 17:04:07 UTC, Frank Pagliughi wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Oh, yes, pointer. Ha! I didn't even think of that. Thanks.
>
> I'm not familiar with how garbage collection works in D. If the 
> initial reference goes out of scope, and you just have a 
> pointer - in another thread, no less - then are you still 
> guaranteed that the object will not disappear while the pointer 
> exists?
>
> [...]

a pointer to a pointer(or in this case, a reference) does not 
keep it alive.