[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Sven Barth]

Am 25.09.2014 11:39 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>
> On 09/22/2014 11:25 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> Considering that those are two different features that don't have
anything to do with each other their development doesn't need to be
serialized, but can happen in parallel ;)
>>
> Will the destructor of a reference counted object not be a kind of
anonymous/closure procedure  ?

Why should it? When the reference count is decreased to zero (and thus the
final reference on the instance is gone) the destructor method is executed
(which is just a "obj.Destroy;"), simple as that (in reality it's a bit
more complex, but that's an implementation detail).

Regards,
Sven
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