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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
Subject: destructors in CLOS?
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Date: 19 Dec 90 17:24:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: creon@nas.nasa.gov's message of 18 Dec 90 20:17:09 GMT


   Date: 18 Dec 90 20:17:09 GMT
   From: creon@nas.nasa.gov (Creon C. Levit)

   I would like to define a method that gets called when a CLOS instance
   gets garbage collected, sort of like a destructor method in c++.

Creon,

What do you want to happen?  For instance, an object may never BE
collected, since the GC may never run.

g