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		winrid on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's... Can you tell the D compiler to free a pointer returned from a C method when it goes out of scope? Like uniq_ptr

boundchecked on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

D has scopeguards similar to defer.

WalterBright on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

D can do RAII.

germandiago on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

via structs, right? As for classes you should not rely on it I recall.

pjmlp on Nov 3, 2022 | | [–]

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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