On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 17:45:25 UTC, Bosak wrote:
You say that D's destroy is not like C#'s IDisposable.Then why
doesn't D then declare that kind of interface:
interface Disposable {
void dispose();
}
It _is_ similar but not exact match. 2 key differences:
1) destroy works on variety of types, not only classes
2) it puts the object into some invalid state
But you can still use class destructor instead of `dispose()`
method.
But destroy() is considered a power tool that should be used only
when absolutely needed. The very necessity to deterministically
call some method opposes the concept of garbage collection - it
is a sign of bad design and clear indicator that one should do a
proper RAII here. I really think D approach here is much cleaner
than C# one.
