Lifetime of a local reference

[Alan Bawden]

ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Alan Bawden <alan at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> >The Java compiler has no way to know whether a variable references an
> >object with a finalize() method that has side effects
> 
>   java.lang.Object#finalize() is deprecated since Java 9. 

And we are advised to use a "Cleaner" or a "PhantomReference" instead.  So
there are still non-deprecated mechanisms in Java 11 you can use to run
cleanup code when an object becomes unreachable.  And the language I quoted
from the Java 8 spec is still there in the Java 11 spec.  So the situation
is unchanged with respect to the point I was making.

-- 
Alan Bawden