When is the next article in the GC series?
Mike Parker
aldacron at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 09:52:54 UTC 2020
On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 09:19:27 UTC, aberba wrote:
>
> Sometimes making people aware of the dark side is also
> important. So a blog post should strike a balance between the
> two...more transparency.
Agreed! If you look through the blog history, you'll find I don't
shy away from it generally. That said, the purpose of the blog
has evolved since its inception. As the *official* D blog, it's
now a major marketing tool, so we do have to be more careful
about tone than we were in the first year or so before we thought
of it that way. That wasn't the consideration in this case,
though. I expected the issue would be resolved sooner or later,
so I thought it better to wait.
>
> But I guess in your you kind of were waiting for the bus
> GC.inFinalizer
Yes. I was hoping more for the separation of finalization and
destruction. I started a thread about it here a while back and
have discussed it with others at DConf and via email, and I have
thought about different approaches for implementing it in the
hopes of recruiting someone to write a DIP for it (writing DIPs
is not something I want to do as DIP manager). The `inFinalizer`
thing gets the job done, though, and without breakage.
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