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From: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- )
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Actor question:  a:=new(ClassA);
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Date: 24 Mar 91 00:26:56 GMT
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In article <27749@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>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().


   a := nil;


   Actor keeps two variable spaces and copies objects back and forth
between them when the system isn't busy. By setting a to nil, you leave
whatever a refered to hanging, and when things get copied that information
gets left behind.



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