Name: gsC80088 Date: 11/24/98


In the same way as the -Stream classes, and the File class, the classes FileWriter and OutputStreamWriter (and the corresponding -Reader classes) should override finalize() to ensure that the stream is always closed when the object is finalized.

I haven't really looked into it, but the easiest way to do this might be to have their base class, Writer, provide a default implementation of finalize() which calls close().
(Review ID: 43330)
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