...not even work. And even if it does, things like RAII may not work.

-Steve

...needs", "this hold me back", "kill GC", "I can't live without in-built RAII", ...

On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 10:30:13 UTC, qznc wrote:

That was the...

I agree.

Currently, a good answer is to direct people to the "Don't fear...

+1(billion)

I've found this pattern works rather well:

module frontendparametersptr;

struct FrontendParametersPtr
{
    // No constructors, initialization...

Yes, I generally use structs with `@disable this(this)` and std.algorithm.mutation.move for...

std.stdio.File does basically the same thing with C's FILE*

...but wrap a primitive pointer to give RAII handling of resources. For example:


    class Dvb...

...of course) and without object lifetimes, no RAII.

Doing this manually sucks, yeah, but I...