Re: Don't expect class destructors to be called at all by the GC

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On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 18:45:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 18:20:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
When the scoped destruction of structs isn't an option, 
RefCounted!T seems to be a less evil alternative than an 
unreliable class dtor. :-/

Alas, RefCounted doesn't work well with inheritance...

Though, what you could do is make the refcounted owners and 
borrow the actual reference later.

i really wonder how Objective-C and Swift is pulling this off.