Patrick Logan wrote in message ...
>In comp.object Mattias Lundstr�m <ehsmalu@ehpt.com> wrote:
>
>: Note also that in the case of Java this kind of resource
>: cleanup may not be satisfactory since we can not know when
>: the finalization (cleanup) is actually done.
>
>In Java you should always explicitly handle resource deallocation for
>all resources that are in any way "precious". Use...
>
>  try {} finally { deallocation }
>
>to ensure that deallocation will occur no later than the exit of the
>"try" body.


And, in C++, because destructors are not in the scope of the try block, I
prefer:

   try {...; cleanup();} catch(...){cleanup(); throw;}

Rather than trying to use destructors as a general solution.


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