On Monday 28 January 2008 16:51:17 Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> It's basically the same. But with "use" (or "using" in C#), you don't
> have to write the "with_open_in" wrapper in the first place because
> the finalizing function is implicit, it's the method called "Dispose".

Exactly.

> Using this scheme with OCaml would mean that any resource-using
> datatype has to be an object (not really the case right now).

Well, anything that wanted to exploit this would need to be an object. We 
could provide a completely new interface and also maintain backwards 
compatibility.

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