On 5/2/14, 9:04 AM, fra wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:21:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I think there's no need to argue that in this community. The GC never
guarantees calling destructors even today, so this decision would be
just a point in the definition space (albeit an extreme one).
I think I (we) need a bit of clarification.
Docs in http://dlang.org/class.html#destructors states that: "The
garbage collector calls the destructor function when the object is
deleted."
As far as I understand, this means that destructors are always called
when an instance is collected. Is this right?
Doesn't this mean that destructors are guaranteed to run for
unreferenced objects if we force the GC to do a full collect cycle?
False pointers make it seem like unreferenced objects are in fact
referenced, so fewer destructors will run than there should. -- Andrei
