Manual memory management in D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/13/2010 09:45 AM, Francisco Almeida wrote:
> I agree, deprecating a fundamental operator like delete should not be
> taken lightly.

I agree deprecation shouldn't be taken lightly, but delete is not a 
fundamental operator - it could and should be defined at most as a 
simple function.

> A lot of us prefer to manage the memory manually and do
> RAII for our own reasons. By all means, add clear(obj) to the
> language/standard library, but both methods should always be available.
> There is no valid reason to coerce the rest of us into depending on the
> garbage collector. If I wanted to program in a language that imposes
> that on me, I would be programming in Java.

Agreed. What would be a good name for a function that does what delete does?


Andrei