ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13
Manuel M T Chakravarty
chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sat Nov 1 02:41:17 EST 2003
Alastair Reid <alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk> 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.
That's what I thought, too.
Manuel
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