> > Pouf, g_obj2 is a dead dodo, and next time someone tries to use it, it's an > error.
As long as handles are never re-used in your plugin. I don't know how it generates handles. > > Which of course applied to any plugin that generates handles. Probably > should add a health warning to docs for all that do about that. > True enough, but one advantage of reference counting was that this problem disappears, and the scripter does not have to worry any more about managing memory or dangling "pointers". If you allow explicit releases, then that advantage disappears. Now ref counting can fail in some cases, eg objects that reference each other, but I think in those cases you just lose some memory. They don't seem too likely to occur anyway in PowerPro scripting.
