r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Alan Bawden <a...@csail.mit.edu> writes: > >The Java compiler has no way to know whether a variable references an > >object with a finalize() method that has side effects > > java.lang.Object#finalize() is deprecated since Java 9.
And we are advised to use a "Cleaner" or a "PhantomReference" instead. So there are still non-deprecated mechanisms in Java 11 you can use to run cleanup code when an object becomes unreachable. And the language I quoted from the Java 8 spec is still there in the Java 11 spec. So the situation is unchanged with respect to the point I was making. -- Alan Bawden -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
