Vision document for H1 2017

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:02:38 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> I don't see how it possibly could given how dynamic arrays work in D. It
> would have to have some sort of reference counting mechanism, which
> would likely be a nightmare with slicing

On that topic, D's arrays would play nicer with both refcounting *and* 
modern garbage collectors if they were structured as base, offset, length 
instead of start, length. You could put metadata just before the start of 
the array, including the reference count.