[Gambas-user] Returning locally instantiated Classes & Collections from Functions.

[Eldon Eller]

A parrot is a talking bird that repeats words that it has heard. So 
"parroting" means repeating things that one has heard without 
necessarily understanding their meaning.

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 22:26, sbungay wrote:
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>>    OK. The local reference to the global instance gets destroyed 
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> Not destroyed, just made NULL.
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>   
>>    but 
>> because we were assigning another reference to the object, the object
>> itself continues to live. Garbage collection occurs when all references
>> to an object are destroyed?
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> Yes.
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>   
>>    Sorry if I'm parroting things back... I just want to understand whats
>> happening.
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>     
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> "parroting"? What does it mean?
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