Re: parrot and refcounting semantics

[Martin D Kealey]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Or, with the "block hooks" that I keep claiming makes timely destruction
> almost never needed, it is:
>
>     {
>         my $s = new CoolClass;
>         # ... do stuff that may throw ...
>         LEAVE { destroy $s }
>     }
>
> This destroys properly and even propagates the exception.
That's good ... but can we have a shorthand; stealing an old C keyword, I'd
suggest:

      {
          auto $a = new CoolClass;
          # ... do stuff that my throw ...
      }