GC-proof resource classes

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 30 11:39:30 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 18:21:17 UTC, Jim Hewes wrote:
> Regarding the garbage collector, if the destructor isn't 
> guaranteed to be called, then I have to assume the worst case 
> that it won't be called. That means I should not use 
> destructors in these cases. It seems to me that should be 
> enough argument.

I've made this argument before, nobody seemed that interested.
A perfectly standards compliant garbage collector could 
completely ignore destructors.


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