On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:28:00 -0500, Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote: >Yep, that's another issue, and one I keep forgetting about, though the fact >that we don't do predictable finalization on some objects isn't a good Yes, I know I promised to shut up until you come up with a spec, but there is one thing that irritates me: 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#). Thanks, -Jan