[External] : Re: Single Thread Continuation

[Robert Engels]

Not quite sure what probably means in this case. 

> On Jul 11, 2023, at 11:31 AM, Andrew Haley <aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/11/23 16:32, Robert Engels wrote:
>> I don’t think it is any different than a database connection and a result set. You CAN close these but typically the system will perform fine if you don’t. The “costly” backend usually has alternative ways of dealing with “lazy” cleanup.
> 
> That seems like a nitpick, IMO. Some resources, especially file handles,
> are scarce. We used to think we could rely on garbage collection to close
> them, but we learned better.
> 
> > To elaborate - since the developer does not have access to the returned
> > iterator in the iterable for each - it is safe to close when it goes out of scope.
> 
> Probably. :-)
> 
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