Safe reference counting cannot be implemented as a library

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-10-27 22:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> That doesn't seem to be the case at all. -- Andrei

I'm not a C++ or Rust expert. But I think that in Rust and with the new 
C++ guide lines the idea is to use reference counting pointers only for 
owning resources. If you want to pass the data to some of part of the 
code, that does not need to own the resource, a raw pointer should be used.

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/Jacob Carlborg