Article:  |
What I Hate About Your Programming Language | |
| Subject: | Java; I want a destructor! | |
| Date: | 2003-05-19 03:26:12 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
|
Response to: Java; I want a destructor!
|
||
| This is especially true in a object-oriented language. I have a stream. Is it a memory stream or does it represent a file, a socket, or something else that the garbage collector won't release (or that a finalize method will release too late)? If you don't know, then you'll have to remember to try-finally-close that stream. Even when dealing with memory streams. That's convenience? | ||
Showing messages 1 through 1 of 1.
-
Java; I want a destructor!
2003-07-08 07:03:53 anonymous2 [View]
Don't use finally() (or python's __del__(), for that matter) as you would a destructor. They may never get called. Also, they pose problems for the garbage collector.