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

[Stephen Bungay]

 Parroting: (Slang). To repeat back what was said in a manner similar to that 
of a parrot. Using your own words to repeat back what was said to ensure you 
understand is also referred to as the "parroting technique".

Steve.

On Friday 18 August 2006 15:34, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 22:26, sbungay wrote:
> >    OK. The local reference to the global instance gets destroyed
>
> Not destroyed, just made NULL.
>
> >    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?
>
> Yes.
>
> >    Sorry if I'm parroting things back... I just want to understand whats
> > happening.
> >
> > Steve.
>
> "parroting"? What does it mean?