Want reasonable reference counting? Disable automatic sharing of immutable

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 06:53:24 UTC, Elronnd wrote:
> So it seems not at all inconsistent to me that a pure function 
> may cause the GC to run, causing a destructor to be run.

Thus pure functions are allowed to conduct I/O, albeit a 
primitive one.

Note that a pure function also can prevent destruction merely by 
computing an integer that is aliasing an address of an object 
that is up for destruction. Again, primitive I/O. So clearly a 
side effect.