Java 7 : The new try-with-resources statement

This is what happens when people aren't given UNWIND-PROTECT and DEFMACRO: a cottage industry of pundits and legislators will form to discuss any itches you might have, and whether to scratch them.<p>Watching Java programmers is like having a tribal shaman for a next-door neighbor. You know it's none of your business, and you respect his beliefs, but it's still unsettling to see him do one of those "hot knife in nose" and "pull stubborn goat with nipple fish-hook" rituals.<p>Come to think of it, that last trick must be what Guy Steele did to drag C++ programmers "halfway to Lisp".

<p><pre><code> (with-open [fis (FileInputStream. source) fos (FileOutputStream. target)] (do-stuff fis fos)) </code></pre> I wish they would spend less time adding stuff to the Java language (especially features present in other JVM languages), and more time fixing the core API and improving the JVM feature set. Continuations would be nice.

"java.lang.AutoCloseable interface"<p>Facepalm... (There has to be an easier way...)

Is this similar to C#/.NET "using" construct ?

Well sure it will help a little, but if only they would add control flow closures then we could write these constructs ourselves rather than having to build them into the core language.