https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11949
Maxim Fomin <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Maxim Fomin <[email protected]> 2014-01-20 01:08:58 PST --- (In reply to comment #2) > I'm with bearophile on this. If something goes away, let it go away. I may not > be an active member of D community, but I am interested in writing software in > D. This "ought to be deprecated but isn't, and what's the replacement?.." > thing Rest nonsense is skipped. Do you now that removing delete actually hurts programming? I am fine that you are interested in writing D code, but asking to remove necessary feature which may be used by other people is bad idea. Delete is actually needed because without it memory management really gets hurt. Without delete and especially overriding new and delete operator methods there is no way to allocate memory for classes in user-friendly way. One need to use old malloc/free or whatever function to allocate mem in specified place. Why should this be done if there is already syntax and semantic for this? If delete and respective class methods are removed, this will increase problem of optional GC. In my view removing delete is like removing scope(XXX) because same effects can be achieved by try-catch-finally blocks. In addition, multiple replacements - destroy, clear and whatever it is, not only do not address the problems, but are crippled. Removing delete belongs to the same basket as removing typedef: a good feature is removed without any valid reasons some years ago and there are still complains that replacement (Typedef struct) does not work. Besides being useful, there is _zero_ real arguments against delete except Andrei's (who is essentially saying that delete contradicts his subjective views about nice and good code - I tried to figure some grounds and failed, he essentially repeats like in case of typedef that the feature is 'bad'). -- Configure issuemail: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
