Thanks for the insight.
With my short experience with JACL, I feel the need to have a mode where java
variables will be automatically "locked". No doubt, this will prevent garbage
collection and will be memory intensive but it will typically be useful for
quick and short interactive sessions. Thi
This is one of the implementation details that you just have to learn.
The only reason you might want to do this is to quickly type in commands
without using variables. If you really need to do this you can use
the java::lock command to save a reference that is not stored in a
variable. If you do