From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-09-08T01:14:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20984] Re: destructor

"Nat Pryce" <nat.pryce@b13media.com> writes:

> class Resource
>   def Resource.use( param )
>     resource = Resource.new( param )
>     try
>       return yield( resource )
>     ensure
>       resource.close
>     end
>   end
> end

You know - I think that's a pattern...

Maybe we should adopt something like this in the libraries we write,
rather than having the "if it takes a block..."


Dave