On 02/19/2016 03:46 PM, Iakh wrote:
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 22:46:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/18/2016 10:22 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
He wanted to embed a mutable reference count literally within a const
object.
Not a headconst object.
I know. I pointed out how it could be done in a way to achieve the
same effect.
BTW, shared_ptr<> uses a pointer to the ref count.
Could D RefCounted!T be splitted into data (possibly immutable) and
mutable metadata?
This is becoming an FAQ. I think someone should write a blog post about
it. The basic problem here is composability is not possible with this
approach. -- Andrei
