Thoughts from newcommer

[Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 17 April 2017 at 15:24:26 UTC, Jerry wrote:

> It has everything to do with @nogc, if it isn't @nogc then it 
> is using the garbage collector and even if it is using 
> Destroy() it is still invoking the GC and something is still 
> going to have to be freed by the GC, even if that class is 
> empty. You can't say it is RAII if it is using the GC, that's 
> just nonsense. So it is not just for convenience.

On the contrary. All RAII does is establish a relation between 
resource lifetime and another resource's (e.g. object's) 
lifetime. It doesn't necessarily have to be limited to any 
particular scope.

> Not to mention for some reason Array's internal implementation 
> is ref counted. If you want ref counted arrays you should do 
> RefCounted!(Array!T). Std.containers is just a giant mess.

The "some reason" is mutable slices.

> I feel like if your solution is, don't use Phobo's containers 
> here use this person's that isn't updating it anymore of 
> questionable quality. Then I feel like you are agreeing with me 
> that phobos containers suck. Oh and it looks like hackerpilot 
> is responsible for merging pull request, lovely.

Yes, std.container does need quite a bit of love. That doesn't 
mean that D doesn't have RAII or that it's RAII support is 
somehow deficient.