On 2009-04-19 09:10:12 -0400, Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.li...@gmail.com> said:
Walter Bright wrote:
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Close a connection gracefully for example, I guess (I mean, send a "bye"
packed, not just close the socket abruptly). Same for closing files
writing some mark or something. They can be risky when finalization is
not
deterministic though.
Scoped objects should be used for that, not gc.
But you can't tell in a dtor whether you're being destroyed
deterministically or not. The only safe assumption is that you aren't,
thus rendering dtors worse than useless.
Actually you could declare your class as scope, that'd make sure every
instance is scope and gets destructed in a timely manner.
Hum, perhaps destructors should only be allowed on scope classes. :-)
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