Should destructors be able to tell who called them?

[Yao G.]

Thanks for this Sean. Although I concur with Steve that it looks weird, at  
least is usable.

Yao G.


On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:51:56 -0500, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
>
>> One of the common problems of destructors is that they cannot assume any
>> of their GC-allocated resources are valid when inside the destrutor.
>
> Just a note.  It's already possible to do this in D2 using an  
> interface.  Here's a thread about it:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=89443&header
>
> And some sample code:
>
> import core.runtime;
>
> interface Disposable
> {
>     void dispose();
> }
>
> bool handler( Object o )
> {
>     auto d = cast(Disposable) o;
>
>     if( d !is null )
>     {
>         d.dispose();
>         return false;
>     }
>     return true;
> }
>
> static this()
> {
>     Runtime.collectHandler = &handler;
> }


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