ARM syntax and new keywords

[tronicek at fit.cvut.cz]

Hi John,

how do you want to find out whether the object is accessible at the end of
the block? You want to run the garbage collector at each closing brace?

Z.
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Zdenek Tronicek
FIT CTU in Prague

John Hendrikx napsal(a):
> Yes, I'm actually a bit surprised that the ARM syntax currently favors
> the try syntax.  Why not simply call a method on any object going out of
> scope if it implements a certain interface?  It would be like finalize,
> except it would have clearly defined semantics making it useful for
> automatically cleaning up your resources (ie, it would be called as soon
> as it goes out of scope).
>
> Exceptions being thrown from such a close method should in my opinion
> simply be disallowed.  If your auto cleanup block can't do it's thing
> without throwing exceptions, then use something else.
>
> All this fooling around with annotations, keywords and resource blocks
> when a decent implementation of finalize could do the trick far easier
> seems odd to me.
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