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At 07:51 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>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?
Sort of. That's at a lower-level, but
>Does there also need to be a finalize() entry, which will result in a noop
>for most PMCs? Or am I layers too low?
Nope. destroy() handles any active cleanup a variable might have. The
garbage collector takes care of the rest.
Dan
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