Hi Brian, you wrote: >The only way to get around the need for finalization here >would be for the garbage collector to automatically close the ports >it reclaims using some internal method, something it currently does >not do (I checked). > >I've added finalization as an enhancement request to Feedback. My preference would be for the garbage collector to close the port. Why should a port be treated different from memory allocation? ;- Elan >> [: - )]