OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Don Clugston]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Boris Kolar wrote:
>> I don't understand why a good RIAA is not already a part of D. C++ has 
>> it, so
>> it obviously can be done. The new 'scoped' keyword is insufficient for 
>> me,
>> because I'd like to make all my classes scoped. I can usually develop
>> 99% of my C++ code without a single 'new' or 'malloc'. Most of my classes
>> are small (average ~2 fields and ~4 methods) and only used locally, so 
>> I'm
>> really angry when I think about negative performance impact they will 
>> have
>> in D simply because a decent RIAA is missing.
> 
> Have you considered using structs instead of classes? They are allocated 
> on the stack.

Can you do RAII with them?
I thought that a struct cannot have a destructor, but reading the spec 
again I notice there's an entry for StructAllocator and 
StructDeallocator, but no indication of how to use it.