Finalizing GC

[Leandro Motta Barros]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 01:07:56AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 31, 2013 20:51:52 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > [...]
> Seems to me like dtors should be removed from the language. Well, except
> struct dtors, which I believe do work when the struct goes out of scope?

I believe that destructors are also guaranteed to be called for "scope
classes" and "scope objects".

Anyway, I had the same feeling when I first learned that destructors
are not guaranteed to be called. I am still trying to find idioms to
do proper resource management in D when trying "class-heavy" designs.
BTW, I think that C# behaves similarly, so I guess these idioms do
exist.

("scope" statements are great when they can be used, and RefCounted
works for other cases, but they don't seem to solve all my problems.)

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