Linus with some good observations on garbage collection

[Timon Gehr]

> On 4/22/11 4:04 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> [snip]
>> This is also the reason I think it is a bad idea to deprecate D's
>> 'delete'.
>
> The functionality is not going away.
>
> Andrei

Yes I realize that. It is a matter of syntax and aesthetics. Handling allocation
and deallocation non-uniformly renders the language ugly (or are you considering
to remove the 'new' keyword too?). And it discourages people to get informed about
custom allocators etc. I mean, how will custom allocators look like? The cost of
having the delete keyword in the language is low. Before removing that, why not
consider the 'body' keyword instead?

Timon