From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-14T02:30:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28437] Re: some more finalizer weirdness

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:26958] some more finalizer weirdness"
    on 01/11/30, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@zaphod.atdesk.com> writes:

|Then I get this:
|
|  finalizer called
|  GC starting
|  leaving
|
|But if I comment out the line "puts 'foo'", then I get:
|
|  foo
|  GC starting
|  finalizer called
|  leaving

The finalizer timing is not deterministic.  They are called sometime
before interpreter termination.

|I don't know what's happening here, but my first suspicion is that it
|has something to do with bindings (?).  Any ideas?

I guess invoking puts "foo" preserves its receiver b.

							matz.