A Refcounted Array Type

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On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 10:13:36 UTC, matovitch wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 10:11:02 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 10:08:23 UTC, matovitch wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 09:44:13 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2/24/2015 1:32 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> The issue is that delete is considered @safe by the 
>>>>> compiler,
>>>>
>>>> I thought more people would be interested in how to do a 
>>>> memory safe reference counted container.
>>>
>>> This is really interesting ! Thought as a beginner, I am 
>>> wondering why the counter need to be a pointer ?
>>
>> That's why:
>> ----
>> this(this)
>> {
>>    if (count)
>>        ++*count;
>> }
>> ----
>
> Hmm, I don't see why that's why... :(

It's more effective if you figure it out on your own.
But maybe this is a bit more clear?
https://github.com/Dgame/m3/blob/master/SmartPointer.d#L106