Next step on reference counting topics

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/05/14 21:00, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> There's been a lot of talk lately regarding improving resource
> management for D, and I'd like to figure the next logical step to take.
> It seems clear that we have reached a collective impasse on a few
> fundamentals, and that more just talk about it all is at the point of
> diminishing returns.
>
> One action item that is hopefully useful to people of all viewpoints is
> to double down on library support, and see how far we can get and what
> insights we collect from the experience.
>
> For that I'm proposing we start real work toward a state-of-the-art
> std.refcounted module. It would include adapters for class, array, and
> pointer types, and should inform language improvements for qualifiers
> (i.e. the tail-const problem), copy elision, literals, operators, and such.

Perhaps, as has been already stared, sprinkle Phobos with output ranges 
and/or allocators.

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/Jacob Carlborg