Class support for RefCounted

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jakobovrum (@JakobOvrum) reported this on 2015-02-11T03:55:16Z

Transfered from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14168

CC List

• nick (@ntrel)
• r9shackleford

Description

Instantiating RefCounted with a class or interface type should reference-count the actual instance and not just a class reference. To this end, RefCounted currently rejects instantiating with class types for forward-compatibility purposes (at least I'm pretty sure that's why it does it).

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jakobovrum commented on 2015-02-11T04:09:47Z

(In reply to Jakob Ovrum from comment #0)
> Instantiating RefCounted with a class or interface type should
> reference-count the actual instance and not just a class reference. To this
> end, RefCounted currently rejects instantiating with class types for
> forward-compatibility purposes (at least I'm pretty sure that's why it does
> it).

I filed a PR to reject interface types as well until class support is properly implemented:

    https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2977