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Re:Convincing Programmers They Want To Use Lisp by js2 on Monday February 21, 2011 @04:46PM (#2247345)
this is in reference to macros, of which "with-net-file" is just an example.
Re:Convincing Programmers They Want To Use Lisp by teilo on Monday February 21, 2011 @04:49PM (#2247361)
No, it's not: "There is no way to do this in a non Lisp language. The closest you can come is to create an object whose constructor sends the open command and destructor sends the closed command, but even this approach has problems."

Seems pretty clear he's talking about the opening/creating and closing/destroying resources.

Re:Convincing Programmers They Want To Use Lisp by js2 on Monday February 21, 2011 @05:35PM (#2247600)
I chalk it up to poor writing. The article clearly makes no sense in that context.