RFC: Proposal: Deterministic Object Destruction

[Mark Lawrence]

On 05/03/18 01:01, Ooomzay wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:57:24 UTC, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
>> On 04/03/18 02:28, Ooomzay wrote:
>>> On Friday, 2 March 2018 15:37:25 UTC, Paul  Moore  wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>       def fn():
>>>>           for i in range(10000):
>>>>               with open(f"file{i}.txt", "w") as f:
>>>>                   f.write("Some text")
>>>>
>>>> How would you write this in your RAII style - without leaving 10,000
>>>> file descriptors open until the end of the function?
>>>    
>>>       def fn():
>>>           for i in range(10000):
>>>               f = RAIIFile(f"file{i}.txt", "w")
>>>               f.write("Some text")
>>>
> 
>> Over my dead body.
> 
> Care to expand on that?
> 

Sure, when you state what you intend doing about reference cycles, which 
you've been asked about countless times.

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Mark Lawrence