• Rusty D. Shackleford (3/3) May 29 2014 Hi, in C++ I can use smart pointers to wrap raw pointers with
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (17/20) May 29 2014 1) Structs provide RAII:

"Rusty D. Shackleford" <nanr9d gmail.com> writes:

Hi, in C++ I can use smart pointers to wrap raw pointers with 
custom deleter to automatically manage C resources. Is there 
anything like this in D?

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 05/29/2014 09:38 PM, Rusty D. Shackleford wrote:

 Hi, in C++ I can use smart pointers to wrap raw pointers with custom
 deleter to automatically manage C resources. Is there anything like this
 in D?

1) Structs provide RAII:

struct S
{
     // ...

     ~this() {
         // cleanup
     }
}

2) catch and finally clauses can be used

3) scope(failure), scope(exit), and scope(success):

{
     auto r = allocateSomeResource();
     scope(exit) deallocateSomeResource(r);

     // ...
}

Ali