On 17 February 2016 at 09:40, Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]>
wrote:
> If you starve a generator it's not going to get completed, just like other
>> control flow won't.
>>
>
> I'm not sure starving is what I'd use here - I definitely do see users do
> a pattern similar to:
>
> ```js
> function getResults*() {
> try {
> var resource = acquire();
> for(const item of resource) yield process(item);
> } finally {
> release(resource);
> }
> }
> ```
>
Yes, exactly the kind of pattern I was referring to as "bogus forms of
resource management". This is an anti-pattern in ES6. It won't work
correctly. We should never have given the illusion that it does.
garbage collection is a form of automatic resource management.
Most GC experts would strongly disagree, if by resource you mean anything
else but memory.
/Andreas
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