From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2009-12-21T15:36:46+09:00
Subject: Re: DESTROY in ruby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tech W. [mailto:TechWWW@yahoo.com.cn]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does ruby have a DESTROY method in its class? like,
> 
> class Myclass
>     def DESTROY
>        something
>     end
> end
> 
> 
> Thanks.

No, objects in Ruby are simply garbage collected
when they go out of scope.  It is never neccesary to explicitly
destroy an object.  If there is any work you need done
before an object goes away, you had best do it before you let
it out of scope.