Not necessary. The global references tables are cleared when the interpreter environment is shutdown. An uninit method is not really needed, because once the uninit method is called, you can't reach those classes any more, so there's no chance of using a stale reference.
Rick On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, this is safe....currently. However, the success of this depends >> entirely on the characteristics of the garbage collector. You >> shouldn't assume that the reference passed directly to your method is >> necessarily a direct reference to the object, so good practice >> dictates you should request a global reference for that object. > > Okay, so that does seem like good practice. I was worried about > releasing the global reference, worried that if it wasn't released, > the interpreter would not terminate. > > But simple experimentation shows that the interpreter doesn't hang > when the ooDialog program ends, if I don't release the reference. > > Even so, I'm wondering if I'm over-looking something. The class > object I am stashing is the PlainBaseDialog class object, which I use > a reference to right off the bat. So, I'm saving the reference (and > doing the global request) in the PlainBaseDialog class init() method. > > The class should be / needs to be valid as long as the ooDialog > package is loaded. Should I add a class uninit method and release the > reference there? > > Which seems like it might not work anyway. If the uninit is not run > until the object is garbage collected and the object is not garbage > collected until the global reference is released, it seems a little > circular. ? > > Should I not worry about releasing the reference, or is there a better > place / way to release it? > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
