On 24 September 2010 17:12, Marcel Taeumel
<marcel.taeumel at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> Just a thought on finalization in general:
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> If we only need one finalizer per object, why not just allow a class to implement #finalize that will be called right before the object will be garbage collected? That would be more convenient.
>

Because a finalization in Squeak is post-mortem action.
What you proposing is pre-mortem action, which will require a lot more
work and changes in VM.


> Ciao
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