Destructor nonsense on dlang.org

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, May 25, 2012 17:53:45 Mehrdad wrote:
> @Andrei: The reason this is allowed is that finalization is
> _separate_ from garbage collection in .NET. So an object can be
> finalized and yet still not GC'd. Or its finalizer might be
> suppressed, allowing it to get GC'd directly. This allows for
> many possibilities, although you don't usually need them.

Finalization _can_ be separate from the GC in D thanks to clear, but it does 
normally occur as part of a collection cycle.

- Jonathan M Davis