On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 22:23:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
The thing is, GC is a terrible and unreliable method of
managing
non-memory resource lifetimes. Destructors for GC objects are
not
guaranteed to ever run. If you do have struct with a
destructor as a
field in a class, you've got, at minimum, suspicious code and
a latent
bug.
Exactly!!! This is why I said we should ban the use of structs
with
dtors as a field in a class.
No, not in a class, but in any GC-managed object. It's
unfortunate that class currently implies GC.
