On 4 November 2025 19:44:40 GMT, Seifeddine Gmati <[email protected]> wrote:
>This mimics Python's context manager protocol. The `dispose()` method >would be called before `__destruct`, allowing objects to distinguish >between successful completion and failure. A clarification here: this would be equivalent to IDisposable in C#, but it would not be equivalent to the Context Manager protocol in Python. The use cases which motivated them are actually quite different: C# needed a way to handle things like pointers to unmanaged memory, so the design is closely tied to the actual resource object cleaning up its own internal state. Python was looking much more generally at common programming patterns, and a "context manager" can be separate from the resource it is managing, or even have no associated resource at all, only "enter" and "exit" behaviour. Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
