Question about wrapping raw C pointers from D

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 05/29/2014 09:38 PM, Rusty D. Shackleford wrote:

 > Hi, in C++ I can use smart pointers to wrap raw pointers with custom
 > deleter to automatically manage C resources. Is there anything like this
 > in D?

1) Structs provide RAII:

struct S
{
     // ...

     ~this() {
         // cleanup
     }
}

2) catch and finally clauses can be used

3) scope(failure), scope(exit), and scope(success):

{
     auto r = allocateSomeResource();
     scope(exit) deallocateSomeResource(r);

     // ...
}

Ali