Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/1/2014 5:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
For example, we have a File struct. It is entirely legitimate for someone to
want to keep a File member variable in a class object. They take care of opening
and closing it appropriately. Again, this is 100% legit code to want to write.
Coming to them from the perspective "you are doing it wrong and there is no
recourse for achieving what you need to do" strikes me as odd.

I meant from the perspective of expecting the GC to close the file for you. If 
you manually run the destructor, such as from using delete, that wouldn't be a 
problem.