DIP77 - Fix unsafe RC pass by 'ref'

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 01:35:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/8/2015 6:19 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 00:30:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 23:11:08 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP77
>>>
>>> That is pretty much the old Rust solution called boxing. This 
>>> sound like the
>>> right way forward to me.
>>
>> Any idea why they abandoned it?
>
> No, but I can guess. It's less efficient.

This and the fact that they want to prevent multiple writable 
burrow for concurrency reasons, so that seemed like the correct 
way forward for them.