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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: A suggestion for resource management
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:37:00 -0500
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"Georg Bauhaus" <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> wrote in message 
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> Scope(whatever) ...; looks like a solution typical of {} languages:
> compare its "flexibility" with the "flexibility" of goto in C and Ada,
> respectively.  I find it too compiler-writer-oriented, and somewhat
> ad hoc in use.  How can it be bridled?

I agree, but I don't think it is "compiler-writer-oriented", because it 
doesn't fit into the things an Ada compiler is already doing. Which means it 
would be a massive new mess, unless it was implemented in terms of existing 
things. I'd probably implement it with an anonymous controlled object having 
the procedure call (conditionally) called from the Finalize routine. 
Probably would be a lot more expensive than just doing it right (using 
controlled types).

Moreover, using pragmas for dynamic content is really an abuse of the 
concept, IMHO. The fact that the concept has been abused in the past doesn't 
make it OK to abuse it more.

                                  Randy.