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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Multiple access to one object and deallocation
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On 2003-11-05, Harry Tucker <snagaghash@sonetcom.com> wrote:
> My question is how to count references to an object so it will be 
> deallocated only after all references have gone out of scope or set to 
> null? An object reference could exist in several lists at any one time.

See: http://www.adapower.com/alg/smartp.html


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