Don't know, but the concept is very useful and has found its way into many languages, such as thr using statement in C#. It is just that it is typically more u

Don't know, but the concept is very useful and has found its way into many languages, such as thr using statement in C#. It is just that it is typically more useful/powerful in languages that lack a GC (doesn't necessarily need to be that way though, but my impression).