Does anyone know under what conditions the finalizer won't be called?
On 3/31/06, Marcin Mielñóki <lopexx / autograf.pl> wrote:> PrimaryKey wrote:> > 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't it be nice to have a> > "unintialize" method to be called when the object is being destroyed?> >>> Java does not have destructors either. finalize method is not guaranteed> to be called>>> > 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#).>> Ruby has them. Every class definition is an executable code (public,> private, protected are methods) so you can alternate method definitions> with arbitrary code (in fact, this is much more powerful mechanism than> static blocks in Java and static constructors in C#)>> lopex>>

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