At 07:51 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Monday 12 February 2001 16:54, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >Could you guys please use "destruction" or "cleanup" as the term for the > > >end-of-scope processing (see e.g. C++). Finalization is used everywhere > > >else to mean: called by GC before the memory is released (see e.g > > >Java/C#). > > > > Correct terminology's important. Destruction it is. > >Just to make sure I (and everyone else) understand how this fits in, is >this the same destruction that is handled by the destroy() vtable entry? Sort of. That's at a lower-level, but >Does there also need to be a finalize() entry, which will result in a noop >for most PMCs? Or am I layers too low? Nope. destroy() handles any active cleanup a variable might have. The garbage collector takes care of the rest. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
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