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On 28/9/22 04:25, Francisco Olarte wrote:
They are just a variation of try/finally, similar to
try-with-resources, not that difficult to understand.

My problem was that in my mind "going out of scope" was "going out of scope everywhere in the program". Yes I see that that's not how Lua's gc works.

So, my takeaways (basically derived from what you describe):

* i'll not use <close> variables anywhere i do not have full control of them or they can leak, nor depend on __close for the system to be correct.

* Conceptually, the main place to release stuff is __gc. Define __close to call __gc to speed up memory release when the user mind it enough.

* All releasing should be idempotent, always.

* Treat <close> as a memory use optimization, to be used when matters where it matters.


Thanks for the comments!

Jorge