Calling destroy on struct pointer
Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 25 00:36:02 PST 2017
On 02/25/2017 12:17 AM, Radu wrote:
> destroy(cc) -> does c = C.init
> destroy(*cc); -> calls the C dtor
>
> Is this by design? If so - how can I destroy and get the dtor called
> without dereferencing the pointer?
It's by design because setting a pointer to null can be considered as
destroying the pointer. Dereferencing is the right way of destroying the
object through the pointer.
I had added the following warning after somebody else was burnt by this
feature. :)
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/memory.html#ix_memory.destroy
Ali
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