From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2001-09-11T04:07:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21040] Re: finalizer question

The answer was discussed recently on this list.  That discussion has been
summarised on the RubyGarden wiki here...

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?DiscussionOnUsingFinalizers


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:42 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:21038] finalizer question


>
> The following code does not print out "doing the final write".
> How can I call the "write" method from within the finalizer?
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
>
> class A
>
>   def A.finalizer
>     Proc.new{ write }
>   end
>
>   def initialize
>     ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(self, A.finalizer)
>   end
>
>   def write
>     puts "doing the final write"
>   end
> end
>
> a = A.new
>
> thanks,
> -joe
>
>