Destructors of the first kind are usually called just
destructors and are used for resource management, and the
second kind are called finalizers. These are useful for
implementing weak references, caching, and various other things
where you don't require objects to be destroyed at a certain
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On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 18:08:22 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
So, instead of removing destructors why not have multiple
types? If the object is manually allocated then we can
guarantee the destructor will be called when the object is
free'ed.
But basically, since they would be different types of
I never got the real issue with destructors(I haven't seen the
issue explained, just a lot of talk about it being a problem and
how to fix it) but I think doing away with them would be a very
bad idea. Assuming the only/main issue is with the GC not
guaranteeing to call them then that is really
