There are two things that bothered me for quite some time

Interior immutability:

Consider a something like this

https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/fa5be84d26bc

The implementation is totally wrong and it doesn't make sense, but it shows that Rc can not be const/immutable because at least "dup" needs to increment the counter.

Is it possible to express that Rc should be mutable but the value that it wraps should be either mutable or const/immutable?

Rvalues and forwarding:

The problem is that when you pass an rvalue to a function you lose the information that is an rvalue. There is nothing like std::forward from c++ that I am aware of.

That becomes a problem when I use variadics with non copyable types. I need to call move on types that can not be copied.

I guess what I could do is to use https://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html#hasElaborateCopyConstructor to detect which types in the variadic args are actually non copyable and then call .move on them.

Is this how you would do it? The use case would be something like this

void test(Args...)(Args args){
someOtherTest(args); // doesn't work because args contains some non copyable types
}

void test(Args...)(Args args){
    someOtherTest(mixin forward!(args));
}

//expands to

void test(Args...)(Args args){
    someOtherTest(args[0].move, args[1], args[2]);
}

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