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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: virtual destructors
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> Another question: are there any advantages in using
> Ada.Finalization for objects that will always be dynamically
> allocated/deallocated over simply declaring a Dispose procedure,
The compiler will make sure Finalize is called, whereas the programmer
will sooner or later forget to call Dispose.