On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 12:35:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 12:19:15 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
I don't get the distinction between destructors and
"finalizers" but imho the problem is very much that the GC is
calling ~this.
Destructors are deterministic, finalizers are not. At least,
that's how I understand the terms are commonly used.
Note that Andrei once proposed in 2014 that the GC wouldn't call
destructors/finalizers at all:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ljrm0d$28vf$1...@digitalmars.com
We're considering deprecating ~this() for classes in the future.
Instead the forum community pushed back and what has been done is
extending the calls to GC-allocated structs.
