deleting a parameter's name as it is passed to a function

Amir Michail amichail at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 20:40:48 EDT 2005


Hi,

I think it would be useful to delete a name of a parameter object as
the object is passed to a function:

dosomestuff(del a)

instead of

dosomestuff(a)
del a

The idea is to garbage collect the object as soon as possible, and this
may be sooner than when dosomestuff returns.

Amir




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