Destructor nonsense on dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/24/12 9:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 24-05-2012 16:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/24/12 9:28 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>> The GC should (and probably does) assume at shutdown that all objects
>>> are unreferenced, and therefore reclaim and finalize them.
>>
>> They may refer to one another.
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> Doesn't matter: Nothing is guaranteed about order of finalization (and
> this is reasonable). Thus, the finalizers can be run in any arbitrary
> order. The important point here is that they are run *at all*.

It does matter because a destructor may use an object that has just been 
destroyed.

Andrei