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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/04
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Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> writes:

> Finally, Ada has local/stack-resident composite objects; all composite
> objects in Java are allocated out of the heap -- there is no compile-time
> way to ensure their lifetime is limited to a single function invocation.)  

Does this mean that that the finalization of local variables is
non-deterministic in Java?  Ugh.