Comments on: Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl) http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/ programming, politics, & other religious issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Janitorial Seattle http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/#comment-37957 Janitorial Seattle Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:22:05 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=664#comment-37957 Well, ruby and groovy have done some resource cleaning here , like they made meta tags easy to implement and when i implement these, it really worked .Sockets/channels are really fitting in the programming which made contacts easier. Well, ruby and groovy have done some resource cleaning here , like they made meta tags easy to implement and when i implement these, it really worked .Sockets/channels are really fitting in the programming which made contacts easier.

]]> By: Robert Fischer http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/#comment-33429 Robert Fischer Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:56:14 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=664#comment-33429 Wordie of it. 'Coz why not? <a href="http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/33230/Enfranchised_Mind%3A_Functional_MetaProgramming_in_Ruby-Groovy" rel="nofollow"> <img src="http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/33230/Enfranchised_Mind%3A_Functional_MetaProgramming_in_Ruby-Groovy"> </a> Wordie of it. ‘Coz why not?



]]> By: roScripts - Webmaster resources and websites http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/#comment-33425 roScripts - Webmaster resources and websites Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:15:05 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=664#comment-33425 <strong>Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)...</strong> Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)... Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)…

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]]> By: Robert Fischer http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/#comment-33419 Robert Fischer Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:56:24 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=664#comment-33419 Oh, and <em>flushing</em> sockets/channels is something that should certainly be done deterministically: don't leave floaters in the pipe. Oh, and flushing sockets/channels is something that should certainly be done deterministically: don’t leave floaters in the pipe.

]]> By: Robert Fischer http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/functional-metaprogramming-ruby-groovy/#comment-33418 Robert Fischer Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:17:32 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=664#comment-33418 Sure, there are cases when deterministic resource clean-up is important -- namely, when it's important to <i>know</i> a resource has been cleaned up at a particular time. Using the GC to close resources which you may want to access again in the same run is simply a bad plan. However, there's a lot of cases where deterministic resource clean-up isn't all that important. Take, for instance, libcurl's API, which requires global init and global clean-up to be done. The OCaml runtime will actually do a *better* job of running the global clean-up reliably than my own code will, since it has a chance to respond to things like signals which my code doesn't address. So what's wrong with using it there? Sure, there are cases when deterministic resource clean-up is important — namely, when it’s important to know a resource has been cleaned up at a particular time. Using the GC to close resources which you may want to access again in the same run is simply a bad plan.

However, there’s a lot of cases where deterministic resource clean-up isn’t all that important. Take, for instance, libcurl’s API, which requires global init and global clean-up to be done. The OCaml runtime will actually do a *better* job of running the global clean-up reliably than my own code will, since it has a chance to respond to things like signals which my code doesn’t address. So what’s wrong with using it there?

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