Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

[Joshua Bloch]

Mark,

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mark Mahieu <markmahieu at googlemail.com>wrote:

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> In all seriousness, what should the behaviour then be if a class implements
> two or more of these interfaces?  Should all of the 'disposal' methods be
> invoked?
>

I'd make it a compile-time error to use an automatic resource management
statement if the static type is a subtype of more than one of these
interfaces.


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> Putting interfaces aside for a moment, instead of an annotation my instinct
> would have been to reach for a modifier here,
>

That's a possibility too.

             Josh