GC-proof resource classes

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 14:32:27 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 08/29/2015 04:20 PM, cym13 wrote:
>> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 14:17:10 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 13:14:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> All of this could be fixed by not letting the GC call 
>>> destructors.
>>> It's a bad, error-prone design to begin with and I guarantee 
>>> any
>>> semi-large D program is probably abusing undefined behavior 
>>> due to it.
>>
>> After reading all that, I too am convinced that the GC 
>> shouldn't call
>> the destructor.
>
> But then classes with destructors shouldn't be allowed to be 
> allocated on the GC heap in the first place, which is a PITA as 
> well. (Note that classes/arrays can have destructors because 
> some component structs have them; structs generally assume that 
> their destructors will be called.)

make classes with destructors(and structs allocated via new) have 
RC semantics.