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

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On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 10:23:20 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On the other hand, foo() and bar() could want to make copies of 
> the refcounted variable. In this case, we still wouldn't need 
> an inc/dec, but we need a way to express that. The solution is 
> another alias-this-ed method that returns a (scoped) 
> BorrowedRC!int, which does not inc/dec on 
> construction/destruction, but does so on copying. (It's 
> probably possible to reuse RC!int for this, a separate type is 
> likely not necessary.)

Yepp, it's possible, it turned out to work quite naturally:
http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Schuetzm/scope#Reference_counting