Order of destruction when garbage collection kicks in
Andrej Mitrovic
andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 13:07:35 PDT 2013
On 4/9/13, Henning Pohl <henning at still-hidden.de> wrote:
> In the destructor of A I expect b either to be null or a valid
> instance of B (which has not been destroyed yet).
Hmm yeah I hoped to see it be null too.
> This is IMO a huge drawback
> towards reference counting with strong/weak references.
I don't think D classes were ever meant to be used with reference
counting. Structs yes, but classes are GC's territory.
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