What are the worst parts of D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/5/14, 11:23 PM, eles wrote:
> On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 03:48:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/5/14, 3:08 PM, eles wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 14:55:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> The main distinction between structs and classes in D is the former
>> are monomorphic value types and the later are polymorphic reference
>> types. -- Andrei
>
> Why hack them with scoped? The need exists, since you provide a hack for
> it.
>
> Reference classes in C++ are polymorphic & reference, but their
> destructor/disposer gets called.

It doesn't because they need to be allocated dynamically. That's why 
there's a need for the likes of unique_ptr and shared_ptr in C++.

> There is a delete that triggers that or a smart pointer. I don't care if
> the delete or the destructor really frees the memory, but I would like
> it to get called, to release other resources that the object might have
> locked and to mark the object as "invalid". Later access to it shall
> triger an exception: "invalidObject".
>
> Call it dispose if you like, because delete is too much like freeing
> memory.
>
> Is there an intermediate type between structs and classes?

The intermediate type between struct and class is struct.


Andrei