Re: non-library level finalization

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

tmoran@acm.org writes:

> I have a generic package that would benefit from doing some cleanup when
> an instantiation disappears.  It can't just declare a (private)
> Finalization_Controlled object because that would require all
> instantiations to be at library level.  Suggestions?

If you can arrange to declare the controlled type outside the generic,
you can still declare the object inside the generic.  But if the cleanup
code needs to work with the generic formal parameters, that won't work.

Probably your best bet is to live with the library-level restriction.
You can still *use* instances from nested places.

- Bob