Why do immutable variables need reference counting?
norm
norm.rowtree at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 23:05:24 UTC 2022
Hi All,
I am clearly misunderstanding something fundamental, and probably
obvious :D
Reading some of the discussions on __metadata I was wondering if
someone could explain why a immutable reference counting type is
needed. By definition a reference counter cannot be immutable, so
what would be the use case that requires it? It cannot really be
pure nor safe either because the ref goes out of scope and the
allocation is freed. How is this immutable?
Thanks,
Norm
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