From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-11-29T23:54:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26904] Re: finalizer not getting called

Paul Brannan wrote:
> Should the garbage collector print an error message when it cannot call a
> finalizer?

Would it not be better to throw an exception if the given Proc isn't of
the correct arity? I.e. fail close to the point of failure. Failing
later, when the object is destructed, it seems better to me to fail
silently. (Just what should you do if GC kicks in and throws you an
exception you know nothing about???)

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