Proposal: Automatic Resource Management (original) (raw)

Joshua Bloch jjb at google.com
Sat Mar 7 10:40:29 PST 2009

Neal, Sorry, I should have defined my terms. I define a "true resource" as an object that can only used once, and then must be disposed of, never to be used again.

          Josh

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:

Although I understand this proposal does not address locks (among others), holding a lock is most definitely holding a "true resource".

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote: > If people feel that the locking case is important, I encourage them to > pursue it with another proposal. I suspect that it won't be difficult to > write. But I am less certain that it will pay for itself. I believe that > the cost-benefit ratio for "true resources" is much higher than for locks. > When Doug was working on JSR 166 we discussed linguistic support, but he > never really felt the need.

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