Vision document for H1 2017

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 05:33:07 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> 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.

I know that you mean for the general case, but the structure you 
describe is the same as `std.experimental.ndclice`s Slice!(1,T*): 
pointer, length, stride triplet. This would also work with higher 
dimensional Slices as well.

Combine that with prefix allocator ét voilá.