Minor tweaks to ffi addendum
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Jun 5 07:27:05 EDT 2002
> 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
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