Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 September 2002 11:41 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> > I'm planning to use that for my book which is in 3.2
> > so is it working or not?
> 
> Well, I _think_ it's working, but if you're not careful (if you don't 
> unregister the events) it can keep your morphs from being GC'd. The 
> old dependents mechanism used a Weak collection already, so this 
> wasn't a problem.

Is #release hooked up to clear these out?  At a glance it looks like it
might be.



> > How does the finalization mechanism work?  Will it nil out garbage slots?

Yes.  Well, that's the "weak references" part.  The "finalization" part
involves someone noticing that a slot becoming empty, and calling a
method on a shalow copy of the original object.



-Lex