Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 3/16/2012 1:52, Invisible wrote:
> > On 15/03/2012 11:17 PM, Darren New wrote:
> >> On 3/15/2012 9:20, Invisible wrote:
> >>> And of course, if GC was in the OS, then you wouldn't have this
> >>> situation of
> >>
> >> You also wouldn't need finalizers.
> >
> > Yeah you would. The OS doesn't magically "know" that a specific object is
> > holding a specific external resource.

> If your OS is garbage-collected, it's not an "external" resource, now is it?

  I think that the idea was that RAM is not the only resource that an
object could own, and having to manually free such resource is error-prone
and going back to the days of C programming.

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                                                          - Warp

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