[Gambas-user] The Wiki has two "Special Methods" pages, why?

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 15/12/2022 à 22:00, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 12/15/22 13:06, BB wrote:
>> They are two quite different topics. For instance, the "language" 
>> _Free page is about the "_Free" command in Gambas but the _Free page 
>> in the "developers" is about how to implement the _Free command when 
>> using the programming interface.
>>
> 
> Maybe I'm dense, but this doesn't make sense to me.
> 
> The Free command frees a memory block allocated by Alloc.
> 
> And, both pages regarding the _free method say the same thing in the 
> first sentence:
> "The _free method is called when an object of the class is destroyed." 
> (/wiki/lang/special/free)
> "The _free method is called when an object of the class is destroyed." 
> (/wiki/dev/api/cat/special/_free)
> 
> /wiki/dev/api/cat/special/_free also says, "Use this method to cleanup 
> the object." One might think from this that the _free method should be 
> used to free (child) objects, not excluding objects that raise events, 
> created by the object being freed.
> 
> 

The '/api' pages are for people who want to program a component in C/C++ 
using the Gambas interpreter API.

It's not for people who program in Gambas.

-- 
Benoît Minisini.