Thanks Stefan, After googling the method I noticed some github issues where Jeff said that finalizer is inefficient and that we should not use it so much #11207. Should I be concerned about this?
The reason I ask is I'm about to try and forge ahead with BioJulia's Dat.jl, and I guess stream work, or types associated with a stream field are a possibility. On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:16:25 PM UTC, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/base/#Base.finalizer > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Ben Ward <axolotl...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure of the answer, but is there an equivalent of the concept of >> a class destructor in Julia? I can imagine a situation where there is some >> type where a field is something like - for example - a file stream, and you >> want to make sure if that variable gets deleted by the gc, then the stream >> that is one of those variables get's closed. >> >> Best, >> Ben. >> >> >
