From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-05-18T16:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: An Object Going Out Of Scope


"Jim Weirich" <jweirich@one.net> wrote in message

> On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 00:47, vinita Papur wrote:
> > A quick question.  How can one discern when an object goes out of scope?
> > I'd like to do something like this:
>
> Objects don't have scope.  Variables do.  (a subtle distinction)
>
>

Very true. And if you are looking for doing something when an object
gets destroyed, read Jim's explanation (and more) on "define_finalizer" :

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

If none of this makes sense, then may be you want something else and
showing an snippet of your code might help.