Is Non-Deterministic Resource-Management a Leaky Abstraction?

From what I can see, there are two pervasive forms of resource-management: deterministic destruction and explicit. Examples of the former would be C++ destructors and smart pointers or Perl’s DESTROY sub, whilst an example of the latter would be Ruby’s blocks-to-manage-resources paradigm or .NET’s IDispose interface.

Why can’t Java/C# implement RAII?

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Why can’t Java/C# implement RAII?

confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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confusion regarding handling of new smart pointers on stack frames?

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C++ Chess board design and smart pointers [closed]

Closed 9 years ago.

Will destructing a large list overflow my stack?

Consider the following singly linked list implementation: