On Saturday, October 27, 2012 01:09:39 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 27-10-2012 01:03, Minas wrote: > > So the delete keyword has been deprecated - so good bye manual memory > > management... > > Um, no. Use destroy() from the object module instead.
Definitely, though it's important to note that what it's doing is inherently different. It destroys what you pass to it but does _not_ free the memory, which is why it's safer. > To free memory > from the GC, use core.memory.GC.free(). Yes. But using core.memory.GC.free is unsafe for the same reasons that delete is. It's just that it's a druntime function instead of a part of the language, so it's less likely for someone to free GC memory without knowing what they're doing. It's there because there _are_ times when it makes sense and is useful, but it's definitely not safe, so you have to be careful and know what you're doing. - Jonathan M Davis
