On 01/09/2012 07:58 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:28:54 -0500, Mehrdad <wfunct...@hotmail.com> wrote:
7. Unstable language. They're currently considering doing things like
removing "delete" as it's apparently deprecated (which will officially
make it not usable as an SP language).
Looks 100% correct. Removing 'delete' /does/ make D unusable as an SP
language... unless you ignore the GC completely, which isn't even
possible, practically speaking.
C doesn't have delete.
But removing delete isn't the problem anyways. Here is the problem
(which exists with delete present in the language):
class C
{
private int[] buf;
this() { buf = new int[5]; }
~this() {/* can't destroy buf here */}
}
void main()
{
auto c = new C;
delete c; // doesn't destroy c.buf
}
What we need is a way to hook deterministic destruction vs. GC
destruction. Only then, a SP language will you be.
-Steve
I was under the impression you could overload new and delete per
class/union/struct which gave you the ability to control how things were
allocated.
I was also under the impression that this would be longer possible with
some of the comments made on IRC. I'm probably wrong (or I hope I'm
wrong...).
