Brad White wrote:

> The reason that we have to use 'using' in C#
> is to make finalization deterministic.
> [...]
> In Delphi that is called Free.

	No. That's not right. The closest thing to Delphi's Free in C# is
IDisposable. The following code samples are more or less equivalent:


Delphi:


    foo = TFoo.Create;
    foo.Bar;
    foo.Free;


C#


    foo = new Foo();
    foo.Bar();
    foo.Dispose();


	Neither one is robust. Better would be (again, these are sort of
similar in what they do):


Delphi:


    foo = TFoo.Create;
    try
      foo.Bar;
    finally
      foo.Free;
    end;


C#


    using (var foo = new Foo())
    {
        foo.Bar();
    }


	Like Rudy said, C#'s using is closer to Delphi's try/finally (though
not the same).


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