Am 01.05.2014 19:35, schrieb "Marc Schütz" <schue...@gmx.net>":
But conceptually, this is _not_ the same as classes! As others have mentioned, it's possible to created structs with `new`, or have them in dynamic arrays, as well as managing class objects manually. Maybe the language should have some way to distinguish between GC-managed and manually-managed objects, preferably in the type system. Then it could be statically checked whether an object is supposed to be GC-managed, and consequentially shouldn't have a destructor. The difference between classes and structs should then be reference vs. value semantics, and polymorphic vs static (which correlate nicely). It should, however, not imply whether the object is managed by the GC or not. Some kind of ownership mechanism would be more suited for that.
+1
