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It's not a problem with gc in general. Erlang for example you typically don't close files if you know the lifetime of your process is transient, you do, if it'

It's not a problem with gc in general. Erlang for example you typically don't close files if you know the lifetime of your process is transient, you do, if it's permanent. End of rule.

jjnoakes 6y ago
Is that really idiomatic? I don't write much erlang but it seems like that wouldn't work for any code shared between two processes, one transient and one permanent.
- dnautics 6y ago
  Why would you share file opening code between two such processes. That sounds like premature abstraction. If you're really doing something in a library like the gp csv example then yeah, close it.
  - jjnoakes 6y ago
    Say you write a library which opens a file.