On 04/03/2018 14:11, Ooomzay wrote:
Well I see a lot of posts that indicate peeps here are more comfortable with
the "with" idiom than the RAII idiom but I have not yet seen a single
linguistic problem or breakage.
As it happens I have used RAII extensively with CPython to manage a debugging
environment with complex external resources that need managing very efficiently.
I have bit of problem with features normally used for the housekeeping
of a language's data structures being roped in to control external
resources that it knows nothing about.
Which also means that if X is a variable with the sole reference to some
external resource, then a mere:
X = 0
will close, destroy, or discard that resource. If the resource is
non-trivial, then it perhaps deserves a non-trivial piece of code to
deal with it when it's no longer needed.
It further means that when you did want to discard an expensive
resource, then X going out of scope, calling del X or whatever, will not
work if a copy of X still exists somewhere.
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