From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 0CD0ABC48 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:39:57 +0100 (CET) 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 j27EdueY026716 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:39:56 +0100 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 PAA29566 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:39:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j27Edsfw026712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:39:55 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D8JJ2-00025I-TR for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:34:01 +0100 Received: from 67.71.25.242 ([67.71.25.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:34:00 +0100 Received: from monnier by 67.71.25.242 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:34:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: exception safety / RAII ? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:37:29 -0500 Message-ID: <87oedvcypd.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> References: <293072a520e3724a0497e6456a8675be@mac.com> <200503070003.52747.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <874qfofdho.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> <200503071330.49084.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.25.242 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:81zB17O+xw0qS5EQZKJRSwke3BM= Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: gclci-caml-list@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: caml-list@inria.fr X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 422C67BC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 422C67BA.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; umontreal:01 finalizer:01 finalizer:01 ...:98 ...:98 exception:01 explicitly:01 rarely:02 rarely:02 coding:05 sloppy:07 practice:08 practice:08 cases:08 99%:91 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: * >> Very bad practice [...] [...] > I very rarely have problems with this. Very rarely having problems with something can't save it from being a very bad practice. Not explicitly closing your files is (in 99% of the cases) just sloppy coding. Kinda like letting a GC finalizer close your windows: when the effect is visible from outside the process it shouldn't be done in a finalizer. Stefan