Proposal 2009 Automatic Resource Management

Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

Author	Josh Bloch
Date of Original Proposal	February 27, 2009
Text of Proposal	embedded in mail (see below)

Summary

The automatic resource management statement is a form of the try statement that declares one or more resources. The scope of these resource declarations is limited to the statement. When the statement completes, whether normally or abruptly, all of its resources are closed automatically.

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