An important pull request: accessing shared affix for immutable data

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 13.02.2016 01:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 02/12/2016 06:29 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> The first thing that comes to mind is that accessing a global
>> associative array is not 'pure'.
>
> The weird thing is in this case is. The analogy is limited. -- Andrei

Why is it limited? Accessing the affix isn't pure either. I.e. reference 
counting will not work in pure code.