RAII and Deterministic Destruction

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On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 22:35:57 UTC, Jim Hewes wrote:
> Although C++ can be ugly, one reason I keep going back to it 
> rather then commit more time to reference-based languages like 
> C# is because I like deterministic destruction so much. My 
> question is whether D can REALLY handle this or not. I've not 
> been sure about this for some time so now I'm just going to 
> come out and finally ask.
>
> I know about this RAII section in the documentation: 
> http://dlang.org/cpptod.html#raii
> But I don't believe that handles all cases, such as having 
> classes as member variables of other classes. (Do the members 
> get destructors called too?)
>
> Then there is std.typecons.Unique and  std.typecons.RefCounted. 
> With these, can I really get deterministic destruction for all 
> cases like I would in C++?
>
> If so, it might be a good idea to emphasize this more in the 
> documentation because I'd think people coming from C++ would be 
> looking for this.
>
> Jim

To add to what the other people said,
there exists scoped!T in std.typecons to allocate a class on the 
stack, and Unique/RefCounted as you mentioned. AFAIK refcounted 
is in the process of being overhauled, but the user should notice 
no differences.