Object arrays in D

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:28:28 +0200
schrieb Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de>:

> Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:35:31 -0400
> schrieb "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Destructors are strictly for cleaning up resources that *AREN'T*
> > allocated by the GC.  For example anything created with C's malloc,
> > or an open file descriptor, etc.
> 
> This I think is a very good advice to beginners. Short and precise.
> It is much more fun to use a new language when you can also free your
> mind from some archaic concepts now and then :)
> 

That's a dangerous advice though: You can create lots of file
descriptors without allocating much memory. So in the worst case you
run out of file-descriptors long before the GC calls your destructor.