Don't expect class destructors to be called at all by the GC
Bienlein
jeti789 at web.de
Wed Jan 31 13:38:07 UTC 2018
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 18:45:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 18:20:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> When the scoped destruction of structs isn't an option,
>> RefCounted!T seems to be a less evil alternative than an
>> unreliable class dtor. :-/
>
> Alas, RefCounted doesn't work well with inheritance...
>
> Though, what you could do is make the refcounted owners and
> borrow the actual reference later.
Is there some summary of the things you have to be aware of when
using the GC in D and not using the GC? I feel this would be very
useful especially for people that are new to D or are not used to
that kind of issues (because coming from a GCed language).
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