This Week in D: Issue #4

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On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 05:53:30 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 04:57:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> I've never liked the phrasing about destructors. Yes, they are 
> not guaranteed to run, but isn't that only during run time? 
> They are going to be called at the application exit to ensure 
> everything is cleaned up.

I would rather go with the term "finalizers" for those in D.

A maybe useful link that quite clearly defines some concepts:

http://sanjaysainitech.blogspot.com/2007/06/difference-between-destructor-dispose.html