@disable

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Clemens wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> 
>> The main idea is to allow creation of noncopyable types by marking 
>> this(this) as @disable.
> 
> I must be missing something, but isn't this usually done by making the copy constructor private?

Well one issue is that in D private has module granularity, which means 
that inside a given module you could still create objects. That has the 
advantage of obviating the need for "friend", but disables the private 
constructor idiom.

Andrei