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, 20
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
> Yes, this is safecurrently. 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
Okay. Well yeah, I shouldn't assume the garbage collector will never
be rewritten.
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Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
> Yes, this is safecurrently. However, the success of this depends
> entirely on the characteristics of the garbage collector. You
> shoul
Yes, this is safecurrently. 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 glo
