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Ashley Yakeley wrote at Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:20:31 -0800:

C++ provides a convenient mechanism for cleaning up stuff, the destructor, which is guaranteed to ....

and asked if something like the C++ destructor could be done in haskell. Don't try this. One of the main attractions of C++ destructors is a guaranteed order their execution. This is too ugly for a lazy language. pfitzen