Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

Joshua Bloch jjb at google.com
Sat Mar 7 10:40:29 PST 2009


Neal,
Sorry, I should have defined my terms.  I define a "true resource" as an
object that can only used once, and then must be disposed of, never to be
used again.

              Josh

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:

> Although I understand this proposal does not address locks (among
> others), holding a lock is most definitely holding a "true resource".
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:
> > If people feel that the locking case is important, I encourage them to
> > pursue it with another proposal.  I suspect that it won't be difficult to
> > write.  But I am less certain that it will pay for itself.  I believe
> that
> > the cost-benefit ratio for "true resources" is much higher than for
> locks.
> >  When Doug was working on JSR 166 we discussed linguistic support, but he
> > never really felt the need.
>



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