Exceptions and Object Destruction (was: Problem with apsw and garbage collection)

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub.com> (CY) wrote:

>CY> Memory management may be an "implementation detail", but it is
>CY> unfortunately one that illustrates the so-called law of leaky
>CY> abstractions.  So I think that one has to write code that follows the
>CY> memory management scheme of whatever language one uses.   For code  written
>CY> for CPython only, as mine is, RAII is an appropriate idiom and  not kludgy
>CY> at all.  Under your assumptions, its use would be wrong, of  course.

I dare to say that, even in CPython it is doomed to disappear, but we
don't know yet on what timescale.
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