Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

Vilya, you can check the entire history of this mailing list over at:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/

Afaik, the latest version of the ARM proposal is here. Assuming Josh  
turned auto-republish on, this URL should always point at the latest  
version:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_0vnstdfdh

AutoClosable idea sounds good to me too, FWIW.

  --Reinier Zwitserloot



On Mar 9, 2009, at 18:55, Vilya Harvey wrote:

> 2009/3/9 Tim Peierls <tim at peierls.net>
>
>> And yes, this will frustrate designers of new resource-ish types  
>> who want
>> ARM support but for whom "close" is not at all the appropriate  
>> verb. But
>> designers of new types are at least free to design abstractions  
>> that aren't
>> as delicate in their clean-up requirements as the current crop of
>> Closeables.
>
>
> Just as a data point, the equivalent to this in Python - the with  
> block -
> uses the method names __enter__ and __exit__ (you can ignore the  
> double
> underscore, that's just a Python convention).
>
> I joined this mailing list too late to see the proposal when it was  
> posted;
> does it include calling any kind of setup method on entering the  
> block? If
> not, this may be worth considering as well?
>
> BTW, is there anywhere online where I can read the proposal?
>
> Vil.
>