> On 4/22/11 4:04 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: > [snip] >> This is also the reason I think it is a bad idea to deprecate D's >> 'delete'. > > The functionality is not going away. > > Andrei
Yes I realize that. It is a matter of syntax and aesthetics. Handling allocation and deallocation non-uniformly renders the language ugly (or are you considering to remove the 'new' keyword too?). And it discourages people to get informed about custom allocators etc. I mean, how will custom allocators look like? The cost of having the delete keyword in the language is low. Before removing that, why not consider the 'body' keyword instead? Timon
