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Re:Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC by winrid on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:33PM (#33446194)
Can you tell the D compiler to free a pointer returned from a C method when it goes out of scope? Like uniq_ptr
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Re:Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC by boundchecked on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:39PM (#33446234)
D has scopeguards similar to defer.
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Re:Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC by WalterBright on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:20AM (#33447329)
D can do RAII.
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Re:Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC by germandiago on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:06AM (#33449357)
via structs, right? As for classes you should not rely on it I recall.
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Re:Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC by pjmlp on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:47AM (#33450167)
You can stack allocate classes, and then they behave like structs.

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/07/07/go-your-own-way-part-one-t...

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