More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:30:05PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/30/14, 2:15 PM, 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?
> 
> That is correct. -- Andrei

I don't like the sound of that. I haven't found myself in a place where
I needed to do something like this, but if I had to, I'd be very unhappy
if struct dtors only work when they're not class members. Can we make
them always work, and if necessary prohibit using them as class members?


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