From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-27T17:12:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16955] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16954] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot"
    on 01/06/27, Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de> writes:

|so you have to trigger garbage collection manually? Pythoneers can count
|on finalizing happening at once, as they use reference counting.

You don't have to trigger it either unless you REALLY care when
garbages to be collected.  And I don't recommend you to use finalizers
too much in Ruby level.  It easily cause unexpected situation.  That's
why Ruby's finalizers are so hard to use.

							matz.