Eliminate class allocators and deallocators?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  7 de octubre a las 15:23 me escribiste:
>> You seem to be asserting that without additional built-in language
>> support, manual memory management is unduly difficult. Why so?
> 
> Because of this:
> 
>>>>> auto x = cast(MyClass) malloc(MyClass.classinfo.init.length);
>>>>> x.__ctor( a, b, c ); // construct
>>>>> ...
>>>>> x.__dtor();
>>>>> free( cast(void*) x );
> 
> :)
> 
> You even forgot to register your object as a root in the GC, so if your
> MyClass has any pointers to the GC your program will blow in your face.
> 
> If you plan to library support to ease this and avoid repetitive and
> bug-prone work, you can ignore my complains...

I too think it would be great to add the necessary support to the
stdlib. In fact, since you have a great deal of expertise in the matter,
feel free to suggest API functions! They'd need to be approved by Sean
too because probably they belong to druntime.

Andrei