Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected?

Remi Turk writes:

IMO, [bracket] does indeed have those same drawbacks. (Although the traditional "explicit memory management model" is alloc/free, which is much worse than bracket/withFile)

Isn't bracket more like stack allocated memory? And most problems with explicit memory management related to heap (as you indicate)?

The theoretical solution (and probably _only_ theoretical) is implementing a lot of garbage collectors: one for memory, one for open files, one for sockets, one for 3D polygon meshes etc etc...

...or have a number of available file handles that is limited by memory? :-) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants