> In fact, I > always considered it something of a mistake to rely on automatic > finalizers to do anything with human visible consequences (though > I seem to remember that Self or Smalltalk relied on this for > closing windows and found it very effective).
Ah yes - if you consider that one instance of "human visible consequences" is "not running out of memory", then I agree :-) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi