On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> The answer used in .NET is to have a dispose() method (which is not a
> special name--just an informal standard) that the class user calls manually
> to clean up resources. It's not an ideal solution but there doesn't seem to
> be many other practical options.
Well, there's the Perl 5 reference counting solution. In normal cases
DESTROY is called as soon as it can be. Of course we're all anxious to
get into the leaky GC boat with Java and C# because we've heard it's
faster. I wonder how fast it is when it's halfway under water and out of
file descriptors.
-sam
