Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/14, 11:45 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 19:37:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> This is only focusing on slices.
>
> That is not going to work out well, because you should be able to
> decrease the ref count of a pointer to something arbitrary (void)
> without knowing the object type.

I said it a couple of times, and it seems it bears repeating: the 
charter of this is solely to create a slice type that takes care of 
itself. What this is not is a general solution for managing internal 
pointers or pointers to arbitrary objects.

Andrei