The GC, destructors, exceptions and memory corruption

[Alexander]

On 13.05.2011 15:47, Don wrote:

> Yeah. It's pretty hard to come up with a use case for a finalizer.

  Why? If object holds some external resource, which needs to be released (like file handle) - that makes perfect use case, IMHO.

  It *could* happen that explicit release didn't happen, that's why finalizer should do this.

/Alexander