Signed word lengths and indexes

[Adam Ruppe]

On 6/18/10, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>> 	static void destroy(MyString* s) {
>> 		free(s);
>> 	}
>
> Why destroy instead of ~this() ?

It allocates and deallocates the memory rather than initialize and
uninitialize the object. I don't think a destructor can free the mem
of its own object.

If I used gc.malloc or stack allocation, the destroy method shouldn't
be necessary at all, since the memory is handled automatically there.

Though, the main reason I did it this way is I was just writing in a C
style rather than a D style, so it was kinda automatic. Still, I'm
pretty sure what I'm saying here about constructor/destructor not able
to actually the memory of the object is true too.