Next step on reference counting topics

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On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 19:00:33 UTC, 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.
>
> Who wants to champion this effort?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Also please std.typecons.refcounted, let's stop that flat
hierarchy madness.