Destructor nonsense on dlang.org

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:47:23 -0400, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 24/05/2012 14:54, Peter Alexander a écrit :
>> On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 12:21:02 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/class.html#Destructor
>>>
>>> "The garbage collector is not guaranteed to run the destructor for all
>>> unreferenced objects."
>>>
>>> What the *hell*? So resources are allowed to arbitrarily leak and the
>>> programmer has to actually expect this to happen?
>>>
>>> I really, really hope that this is a documentation error or early
>>> design decision that has since been rectified but with lack of
>>> documentation updates.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's the same in Java.
>>
>> Finalizers (a.k.a. class destructors) are practically useless.
>
> Java finalizer is a pretty bad design decision. Let's not reproduce  
> error made in Java in D's destructors.

You actually need a finalizer if you want to have resources that aren't GC  
allocated.

-Steve