From: Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2005-06-18T07:30:33+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the correspond method of PERL's DESTROY in ruby

Yi Zhang wrote:
> What's the corresponding method of PERL's DESTROY in ruby?

Generally speaking there is no equivalent. Like Perl, Ruby's garbage 
collection cleans up unreferenced objects without any intervention. If 
you want do something to clean up an external resource at the point when 
you're finished using the instance, the cooresponding Ruby idiom is to 
use a block. Check out http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyIdioms.