Why will the delete keyword be removed?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/13/2010 05:15 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei:
>> It adds misconception and confusion. delete must disappear from D.
>
> Is this case important?
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=113319
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I don't understand what you mean by "this case". All I'm saying is 
simply that all structures and algorithms of GCs are optimized for 
automatic bulk collections and all structures and algorithms of manual 
allocators are optimized for manual frees. So it is definitely not 
reasonable to ask one to do the job of the other.

druntime's current allocator does offer a reasonably effective method of 
manual deallocation, but that risks at creating confusion among users 
who might think it's reasonable to expect that any later GC for D would 
have such a method. The reality is that D's current GC is rather old 
technology and we definitely must expect that any state-of-the-art GC 
added to D cannot honor manual deallocation requests.


Andrei