Re: [Chicken-users] quick port question

[Graham Fawcett]

On 2/24/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, john <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi. Are ports automatically closed when out of scope?
>
> No. You could set a finalizer, though.

It seems to me that *all* ports should be closed upon finalization,
unless explicitly told not to. That is, all ports should have
close-*-port as a default finalizer, and there should be a procedure
available to unregister the finalizer in the rare cases where it
matters to leave it open.

Are there common cases where this would be a mistake? Or perhaps just
a few port-creation procedures that should be excepted?

Best,
Graham