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On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 06:24:05 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 21:45:08 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Except that what if the container is passed to something that 
> keeps it around? The ref-count would need to at least be 
> incremented when passing it, and if the container were passed 
> around enough, it could potentially need to be incremented a 
> lot.
>
> Ranges are potentially another big issue. As I understand it, 
> there have already been issues with const and ranges with 
> std.container.Array, because some of the fancy stuff that it 
> does internally really doesn't work with const (though maybe I 
> misunderstood).

this has a lot to do with const being virtually useless with 
structs