depreciated function delete
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 21:37:38 UTC 2019
On 1/18/19 4:32 PM, Ali wrote:
> On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 21:13:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 1/18/19 3:48 PM, alik wrote:
>>> Hi there. as you know delete function is depreciated. so I tried to
>>> use the __delete function for the code below:
>>>
>>> if (this.parse_buffer.length > this.parse_size)
>>> {
>>> __delete(this.parse_buffer);
>>> this.parse_buffer.length = this.parse_size;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> but in return after I compile code I get the error like : Undefined
>>> identifier.
>>> when I use destroy instead I don't get any errors. but I want to use
>>> __delete because of the garbage collector as it frees up the memory
>>>
>>> thanks in advance.
>>
>> import core.memory: __delete;
>>
>
> thank you for your quick answer. I did it for my own files but should I
> change something in here :
>
> /root/.dub/packages/undead-1.0.9/undead/src/undead/regexp.d(370,17):
> Deprecation: The delete keyword has been deprecated. Use
> object.destroy() (and core.memory.GC.free() if applicable) instead.
>
Yeah that should be updated to use __delete, feel free to submit a PR,
or raise an issue.
-Steve
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