Let’s stop copying C (2016)

Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by gmueckl on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:54AM (#18979934)

This seems equivalent to scope(exit)/scope(success)/scope(failure) in D. The drawback of this construct is that you need to repeat 2 or 3 lines of code each time you need safe cleanup or a commit/abort type of construct. This can become pretty repetitive pretty fast.

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Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by Paul_Diraq on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:12PM (#18984663)

I wish D had copied pythons with statement (without the scope escape) and not used the with statement for destructuring.

The nicest thing: you can throw in the exit method without the runtime falling over itself.

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Re:Let’s stop copying C (2016) by gmueckl on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:13PM (#18985909)

I totally missed that Python has this. This seems like the saner sibling of C#'s using/IDisposable construct.

You can do a kind of RAII in D when you use structs instead of classes because these are stack allocated and have a suitable lifetime.

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