From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q. on Automatic Package Finalization
Date: 1996/09/23
Date: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.843529239@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 523tt4INNlu7@snoopy.cis.ohio-state.edu
iDave said
"Hi. Does anyone know of a good way to achieve automatic package
finalization in Ada95? I'd like to create a generic package which
automatically cleans up its package instance state (possibly including
allocated memory, temporary files, etc.) when the package scope ends.
The code below (which compiles under GNAT 3.05) is one attempt to
achieve this using controlled types. It requires that the
representation of state for package P instances be incorporated into
an instance (pkg_var) of a controlled type (PC.T) declared
in a library-level package (PC). This is not a very satisfactory
solution even if it would work. Does anyone have some better
ideas for handling automatic package finalization?"
This seems a perfectly reasonable approach, and indeed it was knowing
that this approach existed that made it seem unwise to clutter the language
with yet another feature for handling this case specifically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-09-23 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-22 0:00 Q. on Automatic Package Finalization david scott gibson
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Jens Jakob Jensen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
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1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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