Go, D, and the GC

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:42:50 +0000
schrieb Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 07:40:35 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> > Not on the heap. There are many cases where the destructor 
> > won't run and it is allowed by spec. We should do better.
> 
> To be fair, if you new a struct in C++ and never delete it, the 
> destructor will never run there either. D's in the same boat in 
> that regard.

But the D boat reads "Garbage Collector". And besides, D now
runs dtors on new'd structs. The "many cases" may be different
ones than you imagine.

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Marco