GC and finalizers [was: No destructor]

Neil Schemenauer nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca
Thu Aug 24 19:35:40 EDT 2000


Paul Duffin <pduffin at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
>What happens if after calling the finalizer on an object which has
>a zero reference count the object has a non-zero reference count ?

The same thing that happens in Python without GC.  The object
remains alive but the finalizer will not be called again (at
least in 2.0).

  nas



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