From: Michael Walter <michael.walter@gmail.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: exception safety / RAII ?
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:21:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e9a170503070721b2e0298@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503071330.49084.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:30:48 +0000, Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure one should think of it as a "poor man's" solution or an
> > "alternative to GC". An indication to that could be the inclusion of
> > "using" into C#.
>
> I don't know C#, but when would you want to deallocate a resource before all
> references to it have disappeared?
I never had such a desire.
> > Another indication could be the inelegance of
> > finalizers (or as well the trouble people seem to have using them -- I
> > wouldn't blame a wrong (read: C++) context as a cause for that).
>
> How are finalisers inelegant? Apart from referencing an object from its own
> finaliser, what problems do people have?
Referencing other objects from a finalizer.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-07 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-05 18:16 Michael Benfield
2005-03-05 18:44 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-03-07 0:03 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-07 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 2:48 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2005-03-07 13:30 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-07 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 17:10 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 13:07 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-08 21:56 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-09 13:34 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-09 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 16:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-09 22:45 ` [Caml-list] Re: exception safety / RAII Oliver Bandel
2005-03-09 23:42 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-10 14:33 ` exception safety / RAII ? Stefan Monnier
2005-03-10 16:52 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-11 14:46 ` Michael Walter
2005-03-12 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 15:21 ` Michael Walter [this message]
[not found] ` <200503071729.20117.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
2005-03-07 18:47 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Walter
2005-03-08 1:10 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 22:19 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-08 22:53 ` Daniel Yokomizo
2005-03-09 1:21 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-09 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-08 11:33 ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-03-08 12:32 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-08 14:17 ` Michael Walter
2005-03-08 18:28 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 21:34 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-09 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 22:30 ` [Caml-list] " Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-10 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-08 21:32 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-07 3:31 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Walter
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