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Re: Temporal Lists


From: Paul E Johnson
Subject: Re: Temporal Lists
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:04:32 -0500

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

YES. Anything you create with a object creation statement (Swarm create
or createBegin statements) must be explicitly dropped, or else you have
a memory leak.  You don't need to drop temporary variables like ints or
floats, but you do need to drop objects. 

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
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