DIP74: Reference Counted Class Objects

[David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/27/15 6:36 AM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= <schuetzm at gmx.net>" 
wrote:
> On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 08:26:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 22:04:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 2/26/15 2:03 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One of the first things that stood out to me is that "add ref" is two
>>>> words and "release" is one. For the sake of symmetry, how about these:
>>>> *  opIncRef, opDecRef
>>>> *  opAcquire, opRelease
>>>
>>> All - please PLEASE do not derail this into yet another debate about
>>> which names are best. -- Andrei
>>
>> Using protocols rather than enforcing a particular implementation is
>> nice, but D needs to stop reinventing terminology and syntax matters.
>>
>> -- snip --
>
> AddRef/Release is established COM terminology.

One reason for keeping COM terminology might be if 
std.c.windows.com.IUnknown can automatically take advantage of DIP74. Of 
course this could also be a downside—would DIP74 break existing COM code 
in D?