IDisposable, does it really matter

Question

Coming from C/C++ a long time ago I still have a habit of ensuring that all resources are cleaned up correctly. I always ensure Dispose is called on IDisposable classes and impl

Answer 1

Besides the obvious cases (already mentioned) of resources running out, another benefit of IDisposable is that, since it guarantees that Dispose() is called when a using block exits, you can use it for all kinds of things, even things that aren't just "perform operation with OS resource".

In this way, it's like a poor-man's substitute for Ruby blocks, or for one small use case of Lisp macros.