On Thursday, 12 February 2015 at 08:14:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On 2/12/2015 6:42 AM, ketmar wrote:
this problem has very easy solition: we should stop calling
class dtors
"destructors", and rename them to "finalizers".
Absolutely. So many people coming from C++ see "destructor" and
want to use them as they did in C++. How often do we see people
coming on here wondering why they can't get deterministic
destruction out of class destructors? Of course, it's too late
to change anything now, but we need a big, obvious link from
the docs and the wiki and anywhere else people can read about
destructors to a page that explains how D class destructors are
not C++ class destructors.
http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#The-trouble-with-class-destructors
I've also made one for "D can't do real-time because it has a
stop-the-world GC"
http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#The-impossible-real-time-thread
And one for "D doesn't have ADTs"
http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Recursive-Sum-Type-with-matching
