Hello!

After reading the Pickaxe book I noticed it provides almost no
information about object lifecycle and no mention of destructors. As a
Java/C# guy my gut reaction was: Wouldn¡Çt it be nice to have a
¡Èunintialize¡É method to be called when the object is being destroyed?

There seems to be some form of destructor (called finalizers) in the
ObjectSpace module, but it seems to be an afterthought rather that an
integral feature of the language.

Another thing I find very surprising for a language having such a rich
OO model is the lack of static constructors (available in C# and somehow
in Java) and static destructors (something I always wanted to have in
Java/C#).

Based on that I will appreciate your thoughts on why a language having
such advanced OO features is lacking in these areas and is there any way
to emulate these.

Thanks

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