[Gambas-user] Do embeded objects get released too upon destruction ?

[nando]

Does not the following line make the class  "_init"  execute with
each new instance of the class?

     DIM Q AS NEW myClass[5]        ' constructor executes 5 times


Then, with each new instance there is the NEW object array with HELLO 100 times

When the reference to myClass is gone, as in:

   myClass[2] = NULL

Is there a deep unreference to the embedded objects?
 

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From: Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
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Sent: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:26:56 +0200
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Do embeded objects get released too upon destruction ?

> > Question:
> > 
> > If I have a class 'myClass' with the following:
> > 
> >     DIM k = NEW OBJECT[100]
> > 
> >     PUBLIC SUB _init()
> > 
> >        DIM i AS INTEGER
> > 
> >        FOR i = 1 TO 100
> >           k[i] = NEW STRING[]      'add a string array
> >           k[i].add("HELLO")        'add one element with "HELLO"
> >        NEXT
> > 
> >     END
> > 
> > 
> > Somewhere else I have:
> > 
> >     DIM Q AS NEW myClass[5]        ' constructor executes 5 times
> 
> No : you are creating an array of myClass references, but you are not creating 
> any myClass object at all.
> 
> And this is a normal array, not an embedded one.
> 
> > 
> >     Q[2] = NULL   '<---will the embeded string memory get freed too
> >                        when the myClass object is freed ??
> 
> What is "string memory" ?
> 
> Anyway a myClass object will be freed as soon as nothing has a reference on 
> it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini
> 
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