From: ts Date: 2005-04-13T19:06:32+09:00 Subject: Re: ability to run finalizers at a given point of a program? >>>>> "P" == Pit Capitain writes: P> thanks for the hint. I know you don't like to write in English, but P> could you please try to explain why the assignment makes a difference? Well don't look at this, this is not really interesting. The biggest problem that I've seen is that you "think" at ruby level when the GC work at C level. The assignement is just to make sure that the GC will not find the object and this is really dependent on the ruby version. Guy Decoux