DIP64 - Regarding 'pure' and 'nothrow'

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 15:01:58 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Brian Schott"  wrote in message 
> news:pbfgiwaxsdxdxetpihzb at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> The "delete" keyword is deprecated[1] and making that decision 
>> never broke any code.
>>
>> [1] http://dlang.org/deprecate.html#delete
>
> If you look at the table up the top, delete hasn't actually 
> been deprecated yet.  If and when this will actually happen is 
> uncertain.

AFAIK, the only reason that it's not deprecated is that no one 
has bothered to make the change (and you didn't want to deprecate 
it when you went through all  of those and updated their status a 
while back). Andrei has stated on multiple occasions that it's 
going, and I think that Walter has said the same. Arguably, it 
should have been deprecated ages ago. The only good argument I 
see for keeping it around is that we don't have the custom 
allocators yet, so it's royal pain for anyone to construct 
classes on the malloc heap instead of on the GC heap (since using 
emplace to do it is non-trivial), and anyone who's using delete 
and really doesn't want to wait for the GC to collect the memory 
doesn't have an easy alternative at the moment.

- Jonathan M Davis