D is dead

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 07:56:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/24/2018 6:34 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> No, unlike what I suggest, that doesn't work without carefully 
>> reviewing every single place you put it to see whether the 
>> constructor actually supports destructing a partially 
>> constructed object.
>
> All D objects are default-initialized before the constructor 
> sees it (unlike C++). A destructor should be able to handle a 
> default-initialized object.

Then we should add a switch to inject a unittest to run a 
destructor on a default initialisable object. i.e. if it has a 
static opCall or an @disable this(); then don't otherwise do. 
Otherwise this is a well disguised instance of faith based 
programming.