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

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 14:44:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 9/15/14, 2:50 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>>
>> - No way to "GC-dup" the RCString. giving "dup"/"idup" members 
>> on RCstring, for when you really just need to revert to pure 
>> un-collected GC.
>
> Nice. But then I'm thinking, wouldn't people think .dup 
> produces another RCString?
>
I certainly would.  If I wanted a GC string from an RCString, I'd 
probably reach for std.conv for clarity's sake.  e.g.

RCString foo = "banana!";
string bar = to!string(foo);

-Wyatt