[Newbies] Remove old instances of a Class

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 24.05.2008, at 23:54, Claus Kick wrote:

> why not just do
>
> MyClass allInstances do:[:i | i := nil].
> Smalltalk unusedMemory.

This is nonsense. i is a temporary variable, setting it to nil does  
nothing to the original references.

In this case, your sig's appropriateness approaches those of Tim ;)

- Bert -

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