Or: Turducken 2.0 The Reckoning
https://code.dlang.org/packages/rebindable
https://github.com/FeepingCreature/rebindable
Rebindable offers a proxy type, `rebindable.DeepUnqual`
(`DeepUnqual!T`) that can "stand in" for `T` in layout, but does
not share `T`'s constructor, destructor, copy constructor,
invariants or constness.
It's effectively "`std.typecons.Rebindable` for structs (and
everything else)".
This proxy type is useful when implementing data structures where
the lifetime of a contained value is different from the lifetime
of the data structure itself.
This project sprang from my thread over in general,
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/kkefkykirldffkdoq...@forum.dlang.org "Will D always have a way to rebind an arbitrary data type?"
To my knowledge, rebindable exploits no compiler bugs and invokes
no undefined behavior. All casts are such that pointer fields are
matched with pointer fields (or void[]) at the same offset. It is
also totally independent of the vagaries of Phobos functions like
`moveEmplace`, which Turducken used.
Of course, you must still make sure that mutable fields in
`DeepUnqual!T` are never exposed as immutable. You can do this by
only returning `T` by value.
See also: Turducken Type Technique
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ekbxqxhnttihkoszz...@forum.dlang.org
