From: Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T23:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on GC

Thanks, Matz.

-Madan.

On 5/19/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Question on GC"
>     on Fri, 19 May 2006 22:58:28 +0900, "Madan Manoharan" <madan.manoharan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |Does Ruby's GC treat a class variable (@@x) as 'global scope' or as
> |'local scope'?
>
> Global, in a sense you use.
>
> |(1) Will 't' be garbage collected since the only reference to 't' is
> |in @@x, which could go out of scope?
>
> No, class variables remain as it is, even after its scope ended.
>
> |(2) Is my understanding 'scope' correct?
>
> It's called 'extent' in GC field.  Class variables have limited scope
> and infinite extent.
>
>                                                         matz.
>
>