[Haskell-cafe] Re: A heretic question

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Wed Oct 22 09:26:27 EDT 2008


Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Mauricio,
> 
> Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 2:23:55 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Well, one thing I miss from C++ is the idea of acquiring resources
> > in constructors and releasing them in destructors, as explained
> > here:
> 
> > (Haskell uses that in 'with...' functions, like 'withFile', but the
> > syntax in C++ seems cleaner to me.)
> 
> i think that in haskell you may put to action any syntax of RAII -
> both Java-like (with finally) and C++ like (with implicit
> destructors). what concrete style you need to simulate?
> 
Haskell: What language do you want to speak today?

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