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andrewaylett on Sept 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I’m not leaving Python for Go

You can do the same with Java. Both are in a sense trying to re-gain the most useful parts of RAII semantics from C++: making it much more difficult to forget to clean up resources after you've finished with them.

draven on Sept 24, 2012 [–]

Or the unwind-protect faciliy from Common Lisp, that is "cleanup stuff before it goes out of scope"

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