From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05ABBB84 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:01:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k4AJ14xl020348 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:01:04 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24502 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:01:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k4AJ11oa020341 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:01:03 +0200 Received: (qmail 14203 invoked from network); 10 May 2006 19:01:00 -0000 Received: from 67-40-193-41.tukw.qwest.net (HELO [192.168.1.115]) (shawnw@[67.40.193.41]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 May 2006 19:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4462386F.7030806@speakeasy.org> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:01:03 -0700 From: Shawn User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OO design References: <53c655920605050235k64e70333je8df813239ea3c53@mail.gmail.com> <20060508.121743.65190532.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <200605082329.36911.David.Teller@ens-lyon.org> <445FB9C7.4040703@cs.washington.edu> <446152CB.5010605@cis.upenn.edu> <44621204.4020601@cs.washington.edu> <44623257.1060000@speakeasy.org> <9d3ec8300605101147j2f108aiab06820a9e77408@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300605101147j2f108aiab06820a9e77408@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44623870.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4462386D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; shawnw:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 rewrite:01 speakeasy:01 simpler:02 shorter:02 preserve:03 standard:07 rather:07 function:08 file:08 file:08 i'm:08 usually:12 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Till Varoquaux wrote: > One rather standard way to preserve atomicity of open/close operation > is to use with... commands: Why are you top-posting? Anyways, doing just that is what I usually do, but because it's simpler/shorter to just call a function than rewrite the file opening/closing code every time I need I/O, not because I worry about forgetting to close the file when I'm done.