On Monday 27 August 2007 12:28:39 skaller wrote:
> In C++, RAIII is used for this, i.e. object whose constructors
> acquire a resource and destructors release it, together with
> say ref counted pointers, so that throwing an exception unwinds
> all the objects, i.e. executes the destructors to release the
> resources.
>
> Ocaml has no such facility...

Sounds like you want an OCaml equivalent of .NET's Dispose. That's very easy 
to achieve in OCaml but it is rarely useful.

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