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From: pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
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Subject: Actor question:  a:=new(ClassA);
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Date: 23 Mar 91 23:21:52 GMT
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A question about garbage collection in Actor.  When I instantiate a
new object as in a:=new(ClassA); and I am no longer interested in a,
how do I get rid of it?  Is there a GC running?  For instance,
allocating a collection and filling it with some objects. Now I 
do not need is any longer.  Now what?  I say the destroy object
for memory objects and huge bitmaps but not for anything else.

I guess I am looking for the comparable method to the C++ destructor and
using free().


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