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. :)