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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: Objective Caml 2.99 released
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>From: skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>

>        Question: I see no mention of support for ocaml coded
>finalisers. This is a feature that I heard might be supported,
>and would be very useful to me, implementing python __del__ methods
>in my ocaml based python interpreter, Viperi.
>Can someone tell me the status of this issue? 

I know how to do it, it's just a matter of writing the code and the
doc.  I certainly hope it will make it into version 3.0.


>[Should I wait, or cobble up my own solution?]

I'll send you a patch as soon as I have something that works, so
you'll have the feature sooner and I'll have some help in finding the
bugs...

-- Damien