draft proposal for ref counting in D

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 22:31:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> ==Arrays==
>
> Built-in arrays have no place to put a reference count. Ref 
> counted arrays would hence
> become a library type, based on a ref counted class with 
> overloaded operators for
> the array operations.
>

You'll soon see the roadblock here with templates and type 
qualifiers. const(A!T) and A!const(T) has nothing to do with each 
other as far as the compiler is concerned, and no we have no way 
around this ATM.