Re: Temporal Lists

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "DA" == David Aliaga <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

DA> After this the method initializeMyValues finish. (it is going to
DA> be called again for other objects)

DA> The question is since the list is a variable inside the scope of
DA> the method, when it finish , the list (and the memory ocupied by
DA> it) also dissapear? ( or should I explicitily call something [list
DA> drop]?

If you allocate an object, which is a local variable, you always need
to `drop' it when it goes out of scope.  Objective C does _not_ have
automatic garbage collection.  [In Java, an allocated local variable
_would_ be garbage collected when the method was exited.  You might
consider using the Java interface if you aren't completely comfortable
with Objective C or C++ style memory allocation].

DA> i ask this because the next time I call initialize My Values I am
DA> going to create again the list and everything so I dont wanna use
DA> more and more memory.

DA> By the way Why should we use drop with index when they are use
DA> temporally.

Because creating an index consumes memory, and that memory needs to be
freed after it is not needed (the runtime environment doesn't do that
for you).

Alex
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