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

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 15/09/2014 5:51 p.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/14/14, 9:51 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>> 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
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> auto s = String("abc");
>
>
> Andrei
>

Yeah I thought so.
Still I think the whole with statement would be a better direction to 
go, but what ever. I'll drop it.