Making RCSlice and DIP74 work with const and immutable

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 15:53:06 +0000, Marc Schütz wrote:

>> However, AFAICS, it comes with a serious problem. Immutable objects are
>> freely passable between threads, so surely an immutable RC object would
>> need atomic counting just like a shared RC object, but unlike shared,
>> immutable does not necessarily express the intent of sharing between
>> threads; the immutable RC object could easily be counting atomically
>> for nothing.
> 
> Argh! I didn't think about this. Any chance we can deprecate this
> behaviour? It's also an obstacle for the implementation of thread-local
> heaps.

but deprecating this is... illogical at best. immutable objects are 
immutable, so why can't i pass 'em to any thread? do you mean that i 
can't use `immutable string = "mystr";` in different threads without 
copying anymore?
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