Christopher Wright, el 18 de abril a las 22:06 me escribiste: > Walter Bright wrote: > >Leandro Lucarella wrote: > >>You missed the point. I'm not talking about freeing the memory. I'm > >>talking about finalizers. A finalizer could send a "bye" packet throgh the > >>net. That can't be handled by the OS. > >That shouldn't be handled by a finalizer. A "bye" packet can be handled by a > >static destructor. > > That requires more work -- you have to keep track of a bunch of > instances that are active, and then the static destructor goes through > all of them and nukes them each in turn. It isn't a whole lot of work, > I admit. But it is -- or at least, it is perceived as -- an idiom to > make up for an inadequacy of the garbage collector. > > >Finalizers are fairly useless for gc. But they are a lot more useful as RAII > >destructors. > > Then maybe finalizers should be divorced entirely from garbage collection.
Tha's an option too, but I think it's more useful to provide guaranteed finalization, which is very doable too. -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb.
