Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/14/14, 9:51 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
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> static assert("abc".refCounted == "abc");

The idea is we want to write things like:

String s = "abc";

and have it be either refcounted or "classic" depending on the 
definition of String. With a user-defined String, you need:

String s = String("abc");

or

auto s = String("abc");


Andrei