[nomenclature] systems language

[Steven Wawryk]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Steven Wawryk (stevenw at acres.com.au)'s article
> 
>> C and C++ qualify.  I'm new to D and still learning about it, but with
>> the deprecation of scoped classes and delete, I'm not sure that D qualifies.
> 
> Why?  The elimination of scope and delete just serves to uglyify the relevant
> concepts (which are unsafe and infrequently used) and save keywords.  The concepts
> can still be expressed:
> 
> scope T -> std.typecons.scoped!T

Good - ugly is better than nothing.  Can this be used for class members 
of struct's too?


> delete foo -> foo.__dtor();  GC.free(cast(void*) foo);

If I wrote my own minimal run-time with no garbage collector I guess 
GC.free would be replaced by my own memory manager's free function. 
Does D allow me to hook my own allocation function into new?