On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:39, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization, > finalization, and fallback method locating. We need to do this > because we're in the semi-unenviable position of supporting multiple > languages that do this but that *don't* aggree on method names. So we > can't depend on those. > > So, what we're going to do is introduce six properties: > > FALLBACK > CONSTRUCT > BUILD > FINALIZE > DELETE > CLEANUP
Suppose I have, for the sake of argument, a pointer to a struct that comes from an external C library. In which method under this scheme would I tell that library to free the memory? (I'm happy to let global destruction handle that at the moment, but it'd be nice to release memory I know will go unused.) -- c
