Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/14, 1:10 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> tl; dr: it does not matter if this topic proposal works or not, it is
> simply an effort put into the wrong place

Noted. On the face of it it seems odd that reference counted chunks of 
typed memory are deemed useless, at the tail of a discussion discussing 
in great detail the important advantages of reference counting. I should 
also add that imparting useful semantics to scope is much more difficult 
than it might seem. In contrast, reference counted slices are realizable 
in the current language with a relatively small (scoped! :o)) library 
effort and can be put to use immediately. I see a lot of good reasons to 
add them to Phobos regardless of the larger memory allocation changes we 
plan to make.

Andrei