On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 20:14:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9352
Seems like dtors are a minefield of hidden and dangerous bugs,
Yes. It's one of the worst areas. Postblit as well.
due to
them not being used (and therefore tested) very often. :-/
Not really. It's because it's an intrinsically difficult concept.
The destructor is called at end-of-life of the struct. This means
that in every possible part of the language, you have to know
what the end-of-life is. So interaction with other parts of the
language is inevitable, there's an explosion of special cases.
(By contrast, something like 'pure' is a very simple language
feature: you just need to iterate over all the code that's marked
pure, and generate an error if you find anything that isn't pure).
