[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are handles garbage-collected?

[Keean Schupke]

 > The _result_ of a rather complex computation, so it has to

return a function that returns the handle.

 for example:

    handleOpener = complex function
    bracket handleOpener close (\h -> do

Keean

Peter Simons wrote:

>Remi Turk writes:
>
> >> Assuming I could _not_ use 'bracket', 'withFile',
> >> 'finally' or any of the other usual scope-guarding
> >> techniques [...]
>
> > Refactoring comes to the mind... ;)
>
>I wish that were possible! I use bracket-style resource
>allocation wherever I can, but in this case the Handle is
>the _result_ of a rather complex computation, so it has to
>leave the scope in which is was opened. A finalizer is all I
>can use.
>
>
> >                 performGC
>
>That is the function I was looking for.
>
>Well, it's actually not at all the function I was looking
>for, but given the circumstances, it seems to be the only
>solution. Alternatives are highly sought after, though!
>
>Peter
>
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