> I continue to belief, that containers should be value-types. In order > to prevent useless copying you can use something like "Impl * impl" > and reference-counting. Then you only do a copy on actual change. This > is the way I'm currently implementing in my own container-classes. >From my point of view reference counting is not very elegant. The compiler should take care (or give possibilities to take care!!) that no unneccessary copies are made. It could be much simplier than reference counting, but D is simply currently not powerfull enough to allow this in a generic way. As I said in another thread some minutes before: I agree that containers should definitely be by value.
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