I was looking for a copy-on-write reference counted pointer. I started by reading the documentation for cow, which is almost what I want but not reference counted. When it didn't do everything I wanted (reference counting), I went looking on cargo. I eventually found out arc, with make_mut, does wh…

Should the cow documentation mention arc?

steffahn December 28, 2020, 4:09pm 8

@ChrisJefferson does something like this seem appropriate?

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Cow, but owned?

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