Manual memory management in D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/12/2010 12:12 AM, Eric Poggel wrote:
> On 7/12/2010 12:46 AM, Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> On 7/11/2010 22:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> But the same could be said about any language feature! Deprecating the
>>> delete statement, and increasing the verbosity of the code for the sake
>>> of customizability appears absurd to me. Why not move the implementation
>>> of the delete statement to the standard library (if it's not there
>>> already) and get it to do the same as the fancy new clear() thing?
>>
>> Semantically speaking, 'delete' is just a function, and not a
>> particularly common one. This is not the case with most other language
>> features.
>>
>> Turning 'delete' into a real function simplifies the language grammar,
>> frees a keyword, and makes code that uses it more consistent with the
>> rest of D, all at essentially no cost.
>>
>>
> It's yet another import statement.

We could put it in object.di.

All of this stuff has been discussed between (mainly) Walter, Sean, and 
myself. Essentially the plan is to slowly deprecate delete and foster 
use of clear() as safe resource reclamation.


Andrei