manual memory management

[Walter Bright]

On 1/10/2013 4:05 PM, Rob T wrote:
> This is likely a long shot (and may have already been proposed), but what the
> heck: If reference counting is considered to be garbage collection, and D is a
> garbage collected language, then can the current form of GC be replaced with a
> reference counted version that is fully automated,

Yes, but you'd have to rework the semantics of array slices, function closures, 
etc., to add in the reference counts.