Dear all
I hope I am sending this to the correct place.
I regularly use the RAII idiom in Perl 5 and C++ to automatically clean
up resources during object destruction.
I recently read a mail thread "Is RAII possible in Python?" at
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread25072.html and "Perl vs Python -
GC and Reference Counting" at
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.323675.32.
The above threads suggests that Python cannot do RAII since its garbage
collection does not offer deterministic finalization. I understand that
Parrot will not use reference counting for garbage collection and so may
suffer from the same problem. Are my fears warranted?
Kind regards
Blair
