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Re: Enumerators == Resource Leak Risk?

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On 21.03.2014 22:26, keithrbennett@gmail.com wrote:
> I've recently been writing custom Enumerable classes, and thought it
> would be a good idea to support Enumerators as well. Making an
> Enumerable Enumerator-enabled seems to be as simple as adding the
> following line to the beginning of each():
>
> return to_enum unless block_given?
>
> However, I realized that I might be introducing a risk of resource
> leaks by doing so. For example, if my enumerable opens a file to read
> from, and I read a few but not all values from an enumerator it gives
> me, then the Enumerable's each() method that feeds Enumerator's next
> method never completes, and the file close there is never executed.
>
> Should I *not* support enumerators if this is the case?

> Any insight as to the best way to handle this?

No idea whether it's the best approach but you could remove / invalidate 
all methods which do not use each semantic on the returned Enumerator, 
e.g. :feed, :inspect, :next, :next_values, :peek, :peek_values, :rewind

Personally I believe the external iteration functionality should be 
separated from the "regular" internal iteration functionality.  That way 
a clean separation would be achieved.  For me the biggest value in 
to_enum lies in the fact that I can turn any method into an iteration, 
e.g. by doing things like 5.times.map {|x| x * 2}. I cannot remember 
having felt the need for external iteration and if so I would not have 
minded to make it explicit.

Kind regards

	robert

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Enumerators == Resource Leak Risk? keithrbennett@gmail.com - 2014-03-21 14:26 -0700
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