Am 27.04.2011 15:37, schrieb Alexander:
On 27.04.2011 15:15, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
You can use clear to call the destructor of a class, and then GC.free (if you
wish) to free the memory.
BTW, why it is called clear()? To me, clearing something is not destruction.
For instance, some buffer object may be cleared to empty the buffer, so the
action of clear() is counter-intuitive, IMHO.
/Alexander
clear() also works for simple types and pointers - it just resets them
to type.init.
Which sucks when it's a pointer to a struct and the pointer is set to
null instead of calling the structs destructor.
Maybe a function called "destroy()" that only works for classes and
structs (with destructors? or just null other kinds of structs or
something?) may help. It's a better name and it could work more like
you'd expect for pointers to structs.
Cheers,
- Daniel
