Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:28:28 +0200 schrieb Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de>:
> Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:35:31 -0400 > schrieb "Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com>: > > > Destructors are strictly for cleaning up resources that *AREN'T* > > allocated by the GC. For example anything created with C's malloc, > > or an open file descriptor, etc. > > This I think is a very good advice to beginners. Short and precise. > It is much more fun to use a new language when you can also free your > mind from some archaic concepts now and then :) > That's a dangerous advice though: You can create lots of file descriptors without allocating much memory. So in the worst case you run out of file-descriptors long before the GC calls your destructor.
