More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

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On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 21:17:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 4/30/14, 2:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> >On 04/30/2014 10:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >>On 4/30/14, 1:56 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>struct S{
>> >>>     ~this(){ /* ... */ }
>> >>>     /* ... */
>> >>>}
>> >>>
>> >>>class C{
>> >>>     S s;
>> >>>}
>> >>>
>> >>>?
>> >>
>> >>By hand, as I mentioned. -- Andrei
>> >>
>> >
>> >I meant, is it going to be deprecated too?
>> 
>> No, that will continue to be allowed. -- Andrei
>
> Then what is it going to do? S.~this will never get called?
>
It gets called when the gc runs.

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