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On Monday 12 February 2001 16:54, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Could you guys please use "destruction" or "cleanup" as the term for the > >end-of-scope processing (see e.g. C++). Finalization is used everywhere > >else to mean: called by GC before the memory is released (see e.g > >Java/C#). > > Correct terminology's important. Destruction it is. Just to make sure I (and everyone else) understand how this fits in, is this the same destruction that is handled by the destroy() vtable entry? Does there also need to be a finalize() entry, which will result in a noop for most PMCs? Or am I layers too low? -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@capita.comThread Next