ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Fri Oct 31 09:26:37 EST 2003


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:02:08PM +0000, Alastair Reid wrote:
> I think it's ok for the finalizer function to delete the environment
> object if it wants isn't it?  
> 
> This isn't always the right thing to do but I think it is in the common case 
> that there is a unique environment object for every finalized object.
> 
> In the other common case that there is a single environment object for a set 
> of objects (e.g., for all objects of the same 'type'), the finalizer might 
> decrement a reference count on the environment object.

I see.


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