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From: Patrick Logan <plogan@user1.teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/02
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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.

-- 
Patrick Logan    (H) mailto:plogan@teleport.com 
                 (W) mailto:patrickl@gemstone.com 
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