What, again?

What, again?

Posted May 2, 2007 18:26 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: What, again? by peterh
Parent article: The Rise of Functional Languages (Linux Journal)

> if your object is allocated on the stack (which Java forbids)...

If you didn't notice, I'm using Java finalizers and its lack of automatic objects as an example of broken design.

> ...this does get you a kind of "auto-destruction" semantics. But is this a common case?

In C++, absolutely. It couldn't be more common.

I feel like I've answered your question but you're refusing to acknowledge it. Just because Java blew it with finalizers, that doesn't mean that destructors are broken too. Did you understand the second example in my post? I'm happy to explain further if you'd like.

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