At 01:44 PM 2/12/2001 -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: >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#). Correct terminology's important. Destruction it is. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk