[Newbies] Re: Proper object removal

Rob Rothwell r.j.rothwell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 12:03:49 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> Yikes. Klaus, please keep the hair-splitting to squeak-dev if possible.
>
> Assigning to a block parameter is just wrong. Setting temps to nil is
> unnecessary in any normal method. If your code actually needs to worry about
> this, then you left the beginner playground.


I was hoping that was not the case!  I WANT to be a beginner right now, not
understanding something simple!

Rob: Here's a recipe to find out what is keeping your instances from being
> garbage-collected:
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2631
>

Thanks,

Rob
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