Isn't there something like:
{
my $s does LEAVE { destroy $s } = new CoolClass;
# ... do stuff that may throw ...
}
Or something like that?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Martin D Kealey
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:00 PM
To: perl6-internals@perl.org
Subject: Re: parrot and refcounting semantics
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 ...
}
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