Re: Clarification on the effect of "DROP" on subobjects.

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

PJ> I believe that if you created these objects in a separate zone,
PJ> and then dropped the zone, then they would all get wiped out
PJ> automatically.  That's allowed,but not standard.

If your agents are Swarms, then they will act like Zones.  Zones deallocate
their components when they are deallocated, so -drop is redundant.

If you want a simple object for an agent, then it is not hard to
allocate a Zone for agent components, e.g.

   objZone = [Zone create: [self getZone]]
   [component create: obZone]

The advantage being that if you have a bunch of components in the agent,
you don't have to keep track of them all. 

And in Java, there's garbage collection.

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