Re: [Chicken-users] quick port question

[Graham Fawcett]

On 2/24/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Peter Keller wrote:
> > If you need to do this type of thing, unwind-protect is your
> > friend. There
> > is no guarantee that the finalizer will be called when it *must*
> > be called in order not to run out of file descriptors when you need
> > something. Unwind-protect is the way to do this type of clean up.
>
> Yes, or use the 'call-with-*-file' & 'with-*-file' procedures.
> Automatic system resource release upon GC is nice but not R5RS behavior.

All good points -- thanks.

Graham