[Gambas-user] Bug

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Strange! Then there must have been bug for a while that didn't allow to do
that... or I don't know how I learned it otherwise!

Jussi


2011/8/26 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> > > 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
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