On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:09:41 -0400, Francisco Almeida
<francisco.m.alme...@gmail.com> wrote:
== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcae...@gmail.com)'s article
Am 27.04.2011 02:03, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer:
IMHO clear isn't needed for anything but structs and Objects.
For any simple type or pointer you can just write x = x.init; instead of
clear(x) or, as you already mentioned, x=null; for pointers.
AFAIK the main purpose of clear() is to explicitly call the destructor -
and that only makes sense for structs and classes.
Allowing it for other types (especially pointers) just sneaks in
non-obvious bugs, especially when it's considered a replacement for
delete (which calls the destructor for both Object a *struct).
BTW: clear() has often been mentioned in this NG but isn't documented in
the Phobos documentation (which is no surprise because clear() doesn't
have doc-comments).
So I guess I'll report this as a bug.
Cheers,
- Daniel
Regarding clear(), has the implementation already been corrected so that
it does
*not* call the constructor after object destruction?
It's fixed in the latest git repository (BTW, how does one refer to the
git "trunk"?)
It's not in 2.052
-Steve
