...seems to be a fundamental conflict between RAII and the garbage collector.  You can assign...

...was trying to address.  Sometimes (like with RAII), you want an object destructed when it...

...a theoretical perspective
I agree.  But with RAII objects managing references and the like, it...

...parameter:

	For local declarations, scope implements the RAII (Resource Acquisition
	Is Initialization) protocol. This means...

Yep.

Nope. This is against RAII pattern.

...point of being able to specify an RAII type ( via 'scope class' in D ).

I...

...be necessary.

The whole point of 'scope' ( RAII ) in GC is that, for the most...

...can not say too strongly that if RAII, via 'scope', is to work in D...

...of an object in order to implement RAII in D is too much overhead, I...

...the correct situations in order to provide RAII in GC. I do not think the...