On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Svante v. Erichsen <svante.v.erich...@web.de> wrote: > Hi! > > On 2015-07-04 19:30:01+0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote: >> My question is: Should I use trivial-garbage to create a GC hook for the >> connection object so that if the user of the library forgets to close the >> connection, it will get closed eventually once it's GC'ed? > > My first impulse is to say “that is what garbage collection is there for”. It > needs not matter whether the object resides in C or Lisp land or what kind of > resource it is; if the system can identify that it is garbage, it should > collect > it. > > The alternative would also mean that it is difficult for the system to recover > from the mistake without restart. > > Additionally, the API might benefit from a with-async-connection and a > with-open-channel macro. > It might be a good idea to have a GC hook, but you might want your GC hook to log and/or count dropped connections, so you can later detect and fix the underlying issues. Belt and suspenders.
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