Clean way to tell whether a destructor is called by the GC

[ponce via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 11:24:10 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 12:53:59 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> I already have such a dispose() function.
>> The problem is that to support Unique! and scoped! and 
>> friends, the destructor must call dispose(). Thus my need for 
>> a way to separate the GC-induced destructors within dispose() 
>> or ~this (same problem).
>
> Maybe it's simpler to copy-paste Unique and scoped and modify 
> them to handle disposable objects?

But then we would need a standardized name (some use "close", 
some use "dispose", some use "release")

The closest thing we have to a standardized function name is the 
destructor.