More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/1/2014 5:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> For example, we have a File struct. It is entirely legitimate for someone to
> want to keep a File member variable in a class object. They take care of opening
> and closing it appropriately. Again, this is 100% legit code to want to write.
> Coming to them from the perspective "you are doing it wrong and there is no
> recourse for achieving what you need to do" strikes me as odd.

I meant from the perspective of expecting the GC to close the file for you. If 
you manually run the destructor, such as from using delete, that wouldn't be a 
problem.