Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

[Neal Gafter]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Colebourne
<scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
> The proposal does allows the supressed exceptions to be checked immediately:
>
> try (Writer w = open()) {
>   // process
> } catch (IOException ex) {
>   if (ex.getSuppressedExceptions() > 0) {
>     // handle exceptions
>   }
> }
>
> which is pretty neat.

It would be neat if you had a way of knowing ahead of time where this
code needed to be put.  I don't see how you could know it ahead of
time.