From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-12-14T08:41:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28470] Re: some more finalizer weirdness Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:28445] Re: some more finalizer weirdness" on 01/12/14, Paul Brannan writes: |This sounds reasonable, if perhaps a bit odd, but why would it preserve |the old @obj, to which there should be no more references? I guess unused C stack reference to the Foo instance is scanned by the conservative marker. Don't seek in too much. It's a black magic. matz.