auto classes and finalizers

[Sean Kelly]

kris wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, all these concerns would melt away if the GC were 
> changed to not invoke the dtor (see related post). The beauty of that 
> approach is that there's no additional keywords or compiler behaviour; 
> only the GC is modified to remove the dtor call during a normal 
> collection cycle. Invoking delete or raii just works as always, yet the 
> invalid dtor state is eliminated. It also eliminates the need for a 
> dispose() pattern, which would be nice ;-)

For what it's worth, I think this could be accomplished now (thogh I've 
not tried it) as follows:

Object o = new MyObject;
gc_setFinalizer( o, null );


Sean