[Newbies] Removing 'dead' instances

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:08:15PM -0400, Andy Burnett wrote:
> Could some kind soul please explain what I am doing wrong here?
> 
> I have a model, called Fspace, which I have created several instances of,
> whilst I was testing it.
> 
> Fspace allInstances size reports 9 instances.
> 
> When I run
> 
> Fspace allInstancesDo:
>    [:each |
>    each := nil.
> Transcript show: (each value); cr.
>    Smalltalk garbageCollect]
> 
> The transcript shows that the values are set to nil. However, the instances
> don't go away.  So, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Cheers
> AB

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try closing your workspaces

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