Things that keep D from evolving?

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 17:46:48 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 17:46:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 17:38:30 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>>> Can't be done with the root class because classes never 
>>> trigger RAII outside of (deprecated) scope allocations.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. The class instance doesn't have to 
>> trigger anything?
>>
>> You "retain(instance)" to increase the refcount and 
>> "release(instance)" to decrease refcount or destroy the 
>> instance.
>
> Might as well manually free and delete instead.

Er, malloc and free* : )