From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-28T08:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Temporary VALUE Needs to Be Protected?

Hi,

In message "Temporary VALUE Needs to Be Protected?"
    on 02/08/28, William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:

|Now, regarding the temporary variable such as in
|
|    static VALUE func (VALUE var1, ...)
|    {
|        VALUE var2;
|        ....
|        var2 = ....
|        ....
|    }
|
|My feeling says that even var1 and var2 should also be protected as in

No, you don't have to.  Thanks to the "conservativeness" of the Ruby GC.

							matz.