From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-27T00:53:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16908] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16888] finalizers, destructors and whatnot"
    on 01/06/26, "David Leal" <david@jazznet.pt> writes:

|include ObjectSpace
|
|define_finalizer( obj, proc { |id| _id2ref( id ).close  }

finalizers are called AFTER object deallocation.  It's too late to
call _id2ref().  Typical use of finalizers can be seen in tempfile.rb
And properly designed C extension provides their own finalizers, so
that you don't have to care about by youself. 

							matz.