Does kotlin-native have destructors?

Question

In kotlin native there is memScoped function that automatically free allocated memory when control is going out of scope. Is there something like destructors for local objects?

Answer 1

Current Kotlin/Native does not provide mechanism for calling a method when certain object is no longer needed in memory (finalizer in Java speech) but inline lambdas easily allow to implement mechanisms, similar to RAII in C++. For example, if you want to be sure, that some resource is always released after leaving certain scope, you may do:

class Resource {
  fun take() = println("took")
  fun free() = println("freed")
}

inline fun withResource(resource: Resource, body: () -> Unit) =
 try {
   resource.take()
   body()
 } finally {
   resource.free()
 }

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
   withResource(Resource()) { 
       println("body") 
   }
}