delete & its deprecation

[12345swordy]

On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 19:03:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, October 27, 2017 12:30:58 bauss via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> Are there any plans to completely remove the delete keyword so 
>> members of ex. a class can be called delete? Or is there still 
>> code within DMD or Phobos that uses it?
>
> It's been the plan for ages that delete was to be deprecated, 
> but no one has ever bothered to do it.
>
> Part of the problem has been that while it was possible to 
> construct a class into memory allocated with something other 
> than new and than destroy it later, it was actually pretty 
> difficult to get right. If it weren't for that, I probably 
> would have pushed for its removal ages ago. However, now that 
> we have std.experimental.allocator, things have changed a bit, 
> and it should be far more reasonable to get rid of delete. But 
> still, someone has to actually go and deprecate it, and I think 
> that it's more or less been forgotten.
>
> Nothing in Phobos uses delete, and it looks like the only place 
> that uses delete in druntime is some unit tests. I doubt that 
> any of the core D developers have done anything with delete in 
> years, which would be part of why it's easily forgotten. I know 
> that I tend to forget that it's even part of the language.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

It certainly doesn't help when there are bugs regarding destroy 
function.

-Alexander Heistermann