Proposal: Automatic Resource Management (original) (raw)

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Wed Mar 4 15:54:49 PST 2009

interface Disposable { void close() throws Exception; } interface Destroyable { void dispose() throws Exception; } interface Kloseable { void destroy() throws Exception; }

Er, no. If its to be an interface it needs to be just one.

A single interface - Disposable defining close() covers most use cases, and API writers would adapt in the future.

public finally void release() { ... }

I think this works well, and opens up more options. Are there any specific grammer objections?

It would be possible to add a marker interface Finally which enforces the presence of the finally modifier, but that seems to have little obvious benefit, and be a bit magical.

Stephen

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