On Wednesday, 4 May 2022 at 21:55:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:46:50PM +0000, forkit via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
That languages with GC typically give the programmer some
control over the GC, is evidence that programmers do care
(otherwise such features would not be needed).
To deny a programmer the option to release the memory that was
GC allocated within a particular scope, to be release
immediately after that scope exits, seems kinda cruel.
[...]
scope ptr = GC.malloc(size);
scope(exit) GC.free(ptr);
... // use ptr however you like until end of scope
T
that's cruel!
I just want 'scope-based deallocation of GC allocated memory'.
I just want to write one word for this to happen -> 'inscope'
