[Gambas-user] Bug

[Benoît Minisini]

> > It is not setting a different object reference to the same variable, it
> > is removing the object reference from the variable.
> > 
> > "a" is a pointer to an instance of a newly instantiated Class1 object.
> > Setting "a" to null is perfectly valid. "a" then no longer points to an
> > instance.  Therefore the object reference count is decremented (in this
> > case to 0, so the object memory can be freed).
> 
> I'm OK with this, it just created confusion as it was not allowed earlier.
> 

It was allowed since the first line of code of Gambas 1, and it is allowed in 
all object oriented languages I know. :-)

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Benoît Minisini