Auto objects and scope

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

genie wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, guys, but there is something in GC for D I
> can't spin my head about - look at this bit of code:
> 
> Test tst=new Test;
> 
> ....
> if(b)
> {
>    auto Test t1=new Test;
>    ...
>    tst=t1;
> }
> ....
> tst.func();
> 
> auto modifier forces the object to be deleted even though it was
> assigned to something else before leaving the scope - is this
> behaviour correct?
> 
> Gene

Bill gave you a pretty complete answer, but I just wanted to point out you could do this 
to prevent the deletion:

# if (b) {
#   scope Test t1 = new Test;
#   // ...
#   tst = t1;
#   t1 = null; // <-- this will prevent the deletion!
# }

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls