On 21 May 2018 at 06:10, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/20/18 9:49 PM, Manu wrote: >> >> On 20 May 2018 at 17:14, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 5/20/2018 12:28 PM, Manu wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Is re-initialisation to 'init' part of destruction, >>> >>> >>> >>> No. >>> >>>> or is it a >>>> separate post-process? (I feel it's a post-process) >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, and only for delete. > > > Why? This doesn't make a lot of sense, since delete is freeing the memory, > it shouldn't matter what state the memory is left in. I would argue that > should only be done in debug mode, and actually, I wonder if some other kind > of sentinel memory pattern should be written instead. > >> >> destroy() also seems to do it. >> > > Yes, because destroy leaves the memory available for reuse. This is > intentional.
It's uninitialised memory though, Wouldn't the same argument you made above also apply?
