Want reasonable reference counting? Disable automatic sharing of immutable

[Walter Bright]

On 11/14/2021 10:02 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 14.11.21 08:16, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/12/2021 4:31 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> One of the prerequisites to doing reference counting is to have a mutable 
>>> piece of data inside an immutable piece of data.
>>
>> Or maybe just give up on having immutable ref counted objects. Ref counted 
>> objects are mutable.
> 
> Yes, this is definitely a reasonable way to resolve this debate.

Sometimes the obvious way is the best way!

Note that one still can have an immutable *payload* for a ref counted object.