destructors considered harmful?

destructors considered harmful?

Posted Mar 31, 2005 1:21 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: OO is yesterday's news. by khim
Parent article: Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise (NewsForge)

> Hmm. Is it good idea to ask for impossible before you'll do something ?
> Any language with destructors is inherently unsafe - and this is not a
> case of "noone did it yet" but a case of "it's mathematically proven to
> be impossible". Sorry, but you are out of luck.

Can you substantiate this? A Google search for "destructors considered
harmful" turns up no hits (this morning) :-)

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