On 04/04/2016 04:38 PM, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Monday, 4 April 2016 at 21:32:10 UTC, stunaep wrote:
Can you please explain what the scope keyword does and if there
scope was originally intended to be used primarily with classes in
order to get deterministic destruction. It ensures the destructor of a
class is called when the scope exits, just as with a struct. It's not
needed here and shouldn't really be used at all anymore. It has been
superseded by std.typecons.scoped [1]. It's not needed here at all,
though. bz_stream is a struct, so there's no need to allocate an
instance of it:
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Are you asserting that scope is soon to be officially deprecated? I'm
finding "shouldn't really be used at all anymore" a bit of a worrying
statement, as I much prefer the syntax used by scope. Why shouldn't it
"be used at all anymore"?
