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sdevlin on Jan 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of

C#'s 'using' statements allow this kind of pattern for types implementing IDisposable. It looks something like this (might be a little off):

    using (var file = File.Open("foo.txt"))
    {
        ...
    }

dubajj on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

This is what I thought of immediately except to implement the end with behavior you have to override the IDisposable shut down sequence? (does that make sense?)

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