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Java is new TkJava is new TkPosted Aug 28, 2011 23:03 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Java is new Tk by andresfreund Parent article: HP dropping webOS devices
The problem is that it's not actually predictable. It only *seems* predictable. But you could create a reference cycle pointing to your object, and all of a sudden, whoops, doesn't get destructed when you thought it was going to anymore.
There's a reason that Python introduced the "with" statement: to allow for easily-written *actually* predictable resource closing.
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