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Finally, file streams, and deferred execution in PHP

Link – May 31st 2016

Frank de Jonge wrote an article on how to structure to your functions to avoid the duplication of cleanup code. Spoiler: use finally.

Cleaning up after yourself can be a tedious task. For example, closing file handlers after using them needs to be done. A programmer's life isn't all about the happy path. When things go pear-shaped you might end up duplicating cleanup code throughout your code. This is horrible, let's explore an alternative.

https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/finally-file-streams-and-deferred-execution-in-php/

That defer keyword from Go looks super nice.

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