From: Emiliano <emile@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T06:11:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23095] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Tuesday 23 October 2001 22:43, you wrote:

> While nice in its context, this does not work for many paradigms. For
> (hypothetical) example, I have a class which maintains some state
> information in a database. When an instance is destroyed, I want the
> corresponding state deleted out of the database. But I don't know
> beforehand when an instance is going to be destroyed, because I am one
> programmer on a team of 50 programmers working on this product. It is clear
> that a destructor is the most useful way of handling this situation.

No offence but I think that a good design up front would be the most useful 
way of handling this situation.

Emile