D - more or less power than C++?

[Walter Bright]

"Oskar Linde" <olREM at OVEnada.kth.se> wrote in message 
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> - Definable assignment/copy semantics for structs.
>
> This (combined with end of scope destruction) allows automatic reference
> counted resource handles, ownership-transferals, and more.

True, but the need for these are relatively insignificant in D, since D has 
gc and on_scope.