Robin Redeker writes: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:02:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > destroy. There's a vtable method that's called by the GC system when > > an object is no longer reachable from the root set. > > Actually, not when, but some (indefinite) time after that has happened, > right? > > > > And if so, what > > >would the purpose of them be? > > First, let me define "destructor" as something that runs very soon after > an object is no longer reachable (perl5 sense), and a "finalizer" as > somethign that gets called before the memory of an object gets reused > (java sense).
Just so you don't talk past each other, I'll point out that this is backwards from how we usually talk about these. Luke
