Decompressing bzip2

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 04/04/2016 04:38 PM, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 4 April 2016 at 21:32:10 UTC, stunaep wrote:
>
>> Can you please explain what the scope keyword does and if there
>
> scope was originally intended to be used primarily with classes in 
> order to get deterministic destruction. It ensures the destructor of a 
> class is called when the scope exits, just as with a struct. It's not 
> needed here and shouldn't really be used at all anymore. It has been 
> superseded by std.typecons.scoped [1]. It's not needed here at all, 
> though. bz_stream is a struct, so there's no need to allocate an 
> instance of it:
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Are you asserting that scope is soon to be officially deprecated? I'm 
finding "shouldn't really be used at all anymore" a bit of a worrying 
statement, as I much prefer the syntax used by scope.  Why shouldn't it 
"be used at all anymore"?