What is going on here?

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/03/15 17:43, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 3/4/15 8:43 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>> I'd expect A's destructor to run, which does not seem to be the case.
>
>
> I believe destructors are not run when you throw inside a constructor.
> So plan to deallocate if the ctor throws:
>
> a = A(var + 1);
> scope(failure) destroy(a);
>
> -Steve

That's pretty horrible. So now I need to keep track of the 
implementation of my members to figure out whether it is okay to skip 
the destructor or not.

All of this from a language that claims to support RAII, which was 
invented precisely so the programmer does not have to keep track of 
those things.

I think this is precisely the sort of corner cases that drive people 
away from C++.

Shachar