Ref counting

[Mark Mitchell]

> Is there a way to increase ref count of object to reference it outside
> of function scope or am trying to do something deprecated ? Should I be
> passing in a reference argument and initialize Array/Field in the
> function ?

I suggest allocating the new Array/Field with "new", rather than as a
local variable, and then returning it the pointer.

Jeffrey, do you have alternative ideas?

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