Hi brent

I'm not sure but in VW it is advised to do

	i become: String new    and not i become: nil

The point explained to me was that  else you will have a lot of pointer 
pointing to nil while you would prefer to have them pointing on fresh 
objects that will be garbagecollected.

I do not know if this makes sense at all. Since lot of pointers are 
already pointing to nil
and gc may treat nil differently.

Stef


On 7 mai 05, at 13:25, Brent Pinkney wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are
>
> 	Smalltalk obsoleteBehaviors size = 202
>
> in 3.8gamm.
>
> Most seem to refer to the multilingualization.
>
> The wiki recommends something like:
>
> 	Smalltalk obsoleteClasses do: [ :c |
> 		c allInstancesDo: [ :i | i becomeForward: nil ].
> 		c becomeForward: nil ].
> 	Smalltalk garbageCollect.
>
> This does indeed get rid of the obsolete classes.
>
> Can any one comment whether this is a) safe b) whehter there is a 
> policy of removing obsolete classes in gamma/final images ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brent
>