[Newbies] Re: Proper object removal
Rob Rothwell
r.j.rothwell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 13:46:29 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>
wrote:
> What you want to see (according to your question about object removal) is
> just the empty array; and what I wanted to point out (without hair-splitting
> ;) is, that when you GC+check this within the same method, it *must* fail.
I guess it would have to, wouldn't it?
In Smalltalk it's very easy to script the removal+GC+check, for example in a
> workspace or add GC+check temporarily in a debugger session; that was my
> concern.
> A good example for maintaining parent/child objects, which works perfectly,
> is Smalltalk's #addSubclass: #removeSubclass: (both on the instance side of
> Class); when you check these two methods think that 'superclass' is your
> parent pointer.
Thanks for pointing this out--maybe I can learn something and get this
working properly!
Rob
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