Destroying structs (literally)

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 29 12:01:49 PDT 2014


On 8/29/14, 3:53 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg just recently brought this up in another thread. Isn't it
> kind of consensus that calling a destructor from the GC is not a good
> idea because of the restrictions that apply in this context? Andrei even
> wanted to deprecate destructors for classes because of this. Maybe a
> better direction would be to separate the concepts of destruction and
> finalization, and introduce two kinds of "destructors" for them.

I think we need to stay with what we have. Adding a distinct kind of 
destructor might be interesting. -- Andrei


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