On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>wrote:

> Why not make the context a custom block with finalizer? The finalizer
> then frees the resources. If the context escapes then it remains alive
> and the finalizer will not be called any time soon. Only when it is no
> longer reachable. That would also allow someone to create a context and use
> it for a number of operations before forgeting it.
>

Good point. I'll need to consider this as a possible API direction. I have
many years of C/C++ programming under my belt, so I tend to want to
micromanage the resources. :)

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