Bug in destructors

[Andrej Mitrovic]

This was discussed here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/TDPL_Manual_invocation_of_destructor_114875.html

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Rob Grainger
<rob_grainger2000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The following example is based on one from The D Programming Language. I'd expect the last assertion in
> the unittest to succeed, it fails.
>
> class Buffer {
>        private void* data;
>
>        // Constructor
>        this () {
>                data = malloc(1024);
>        }
>        // Destructor
>        ~this() {
>                free(data);
>                data = null;
>        }
> }
> unittest {
>        auto b = new Buffer;
>        auto b1 = b;
>        clear(b);                               // Get rid of b's extra state
>        assert (b1.data is null);       // Should be ok, fails
> }
>