https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18505
Issue ID: 18505 Summary: delete deprecation message is misleading Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Keywords: diagnostic Severity: minor Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: schvei...@yahoo.com Currently, the dprecation message for delete says: Deprecation: The delete keyword has been deprecated. Use object.destroy() instead. However, this is not complete. In order to fully replace the mechanism of delete, you must call GC.free on the pointer. In many cases, people have used delete and expect the memory to be freed. Telling them that all they have to do is use destroy is not going to satisfy. I suggest (similar to Bearophile's suggestion in issue 9433): use object.destroy (and optionally core.memory.GC.free) instead. There is also this new function (unreleased as of 2.079, but in druntime already): https://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/core_memory.html#.__delete --