Object.toString, toHash, opCmp, opEquals

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 26/04/2024 12:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> As I recall, it was you that pointed out that reference counting can 
> never be safe if two mutable pointers to the same ref counted object 
> (one to the object, the other to its interior) were passed to a 
> function. (Freeing the first can leave the second interior pointer 
> pointing to a deleted object.) The entire ref counting scheme capsized 
> because of this.

This is the first time I have heard of this being a concern of yours.

Stuff like this is always solvable if we acknowledge (in other words 
write them all down) what the requirements are!