Bug in touchForeignPtr?

Abraham Egnor abe.egnor at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 12:48:26 EST 2004


> If finalizers are not the right thing, what else is?

I've found that when writing an interface to a C library that requires
resource management, it's much better to use the withX (see
Control.Exception.bracket) style of function than to use finalizers -
programs are much easier to reason about and debug.

Abe


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