Re: different try-finally approach
Pitch wrote:
In article <h5ack5$26l$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
mccleary.b@folderol.cs.uhtx.edu says...>
Pitch wrote:
In article <h59cv1$tq6$1@news.albasani.net>, noone@lewscanon.com says
public void doSomething()
// throws [MyResource|App]Exception
{
final MyResource res;
[snip]
try
{
// do something with res
}
finally
{
res.close()
}
}
This implies res is not going to get null in the last try-block. I think
this is a real possibility if more programmers work on the code so you'd
still need if != null
No, 'res' is guaranteed not to be null.
What about this:
assert res != null;
try
{
// do something with res
res = null;
}
finally
{
res.close()
}
Error: cannot assign a value to final variable res
1 error
The helpful compiler can now enforce the rules; no need to waste expensive
run-time tests or exceptions. With a dash of immutability, fine-grained
exception handling to distinguish acquisition failure from in-stream failure,
carefully positioned 'assert' invariants, and a properly-scoped 'finally' to
enforce resource release, one provably locks out the Bad Things from run-time
possibility.
It's worth a little extra care in the lower levels of resource client code to
gain such robustness.
--
Lew
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