The "no gc" crowd

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 10/10/13 19:31, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'm honestly surprised that Andrei is rejecting the idea of casting to/from
> shared or immutable being normal given how it's required by our current
> concurrency model. And changing that would be a _big_ change.

I'm starting to incline towards the view that type qualifications of _any_ kind 
become problematic once you start working with any types other than built-in, 
and not just in the context of concurrency.  See e.g.:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11148
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11188

I'd really appreciate advice on how to handle issues like these, because it's 
becoming a serious obstacle to my work on std.rational.