Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: > On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:34:54 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu > <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: [...] > > 2. It would force certain types (such as BigInt) that allocate > > resources and have value semantics to resort to reference > > counting.
> Or to be considered immutable. I believe Java does it this way. Of > course, Java's GC is much better at dealing with this... I would vote prettty strongly for immutability for things in the standard library. I think the abstraction isn't as leaky and designing library interfaces around current GC QoI issues strikes me as a bad plan. Cheers, Pillsy