From: Pit Capitain Date: 2005-04-13T19:46:00+09:00 Subject: Re: ability to run finalizers at a given point of a program? ts schrieb: >>>>>>"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. OK, I still don't understand, but your hint helped me to finally get my finalizer unit tests working, so thanks again. Regards, Pit