Christopher Smith wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >>.. >> Unfortunately, constructors and destructors are excruciatingly >> difficult to get right in the presence of exceptions. The fact that >> that you have to pull out about 3 different books to get this right >> says that something is broken. > Or perhaps that there is something that can be learned.... ;-) > > Most of the people who can actually explain clearly to me the > differences between destructors and finalization will observe that the > former is far more useful than the latter, and they both make it > difficult to accurately characterize the behaviour of a system > (finalizers manage to do so even without adding exceptions in to the mix > ;-).
Can someone explain clearly the differences? Seriously. A quick glance at some googlehits and w'pedia doesn't give me a feel for why this is a significant question, although I gather it's (maybe?) got something to do with deterministic concerns (perhaps correctness?). Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
