Destructor nonsense on dlang.org

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-24 21:46, foobar wrote:

> Looks to me like an issue with separation of concerns. I think that
> dtors need to only provide deterministic management of resources and not
> affect GC algorithms:
> 1. classes should *not* have dtors at all.
> 2. struct values should *not* be gc managed [*].
>
> Composition of classes and structs should be handled as follows:
> 1. If a class contains a pointer to a struct it doesn't scan it in a GC
> cycle. The runtime can provide a hook so that structs could register a
> callback for RC purposes.
> 2. When a class contains a strcut value, they share the same lifetime
> thus the GC will call the struct's dtor when the object is collected.

How is that any different than having destructors for classes.

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/Jacob Carlborg