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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:47:41 +0100
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"Brian May" <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> I think the finalize routine doesn't get called because the variable
> drops out of scope, it only gets finalized when the program exits.
>
> So you can't rely on this behavior unless your program was going to
> exit anyway.

You're absolutely right - but this is still different from C++ just not
as different as I'd thought.

Cheers

-- Martin