Re: clear() causes crash?

[Mafi]

On Monday, 29 April 2013 at 21:04:30 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:

This crashes in the last line of main:

    class A
    {
        void foo() {}
    }

    void main()
    {
        A a = new A();
        a.foo();
        clear(a);
        assert(a !is null);
        a.foo();  // crashes
    }

As far as I understand from TDPL book, this should not crash, but it does (DMD64 v2.062, OS X). Am I misunderstanding clear()?

BTW, why not make clear also change 'a' to null?

Hasn't 'clear' been renamed to 'destroy'?