On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 07:42:26 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
The other topic is still relevant to me too however (and many
others).
We still need to solve the problem with destructors.
I agree with Andrei, they should be removed from the language
as they
are. You can't offer destructors if they don't get called.
Andrei only said, they are not called sometimes, not always, so
we can guarantee destructor calls, when it can be guaranteed.
And the usefulness of destructors is seriously compromised if
you can't rely
on them being executed eagerly. Without eager executed
destructors, in
many situations, you end up with effective manual releasing the
object
anyway (*cough* C#), and that implies manually maintaining
knowledge
of lifetime/end of life and calling some release.
I use finalizers in C#, they're useful. I understand, it's a
popular misunderstanding, that people think, that GC must work
like RAII. But GC manages only its resources, not your resources.
It can manage memory without RAII, and it does so. Speaking about
eager resource management, we have Unique and RefCounted in
phobos, in fact, files are already managed that way. What's
problem?
