...Foo)();  // auto used to be used for RAII (DMD 0.043)
       auto  temp2  = new scope...

...Foo)();  // auto used to be used for RAII (DMD 0.043)
       auto  temp2  = new scope...

...are fairly useless for gc. But they are a lot more useful as RAII destructors.

...cleanly terminating connections.

What you need is RAII, not garbage collection.


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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2518


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...manner.  The other 50% does not need RAII, but also wouldn't benefit from GC...

...GC.

GC is useless for resource management.  RAII solves the resource management problem, in C...

...are for the worse, not better. Except raii perhaps, although I don't think this...

...semantics for classes and better support for RAII style resource management compared to D1. Furthermore...

...semantics, direct storage, RAII:
    Structs in D.
  Value semantics, padded direct storage, RAII:
    One possible...