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Dan Sugalski  
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 More options Apr 6 2004, 12:48 pm
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:51:33 -0400
Local: Tues, Apr 6 2004 11:51 am
Subject: Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks
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At 10:29 PM -0800 4/1/04, chromatic wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:39, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>>  Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization,
>>  finalization, and fallback method locating. We need to do this
>>  because we're in the semi-unenviable position of supporting multiple
>>  languages that do this but that *don't* aggree on method names. So we
>>  can't depend on those.

>>  So, what we're going to do is introduce six properties:

>>      FALLBACK
>>      CONSTRUCT
>>      BUILD
>>      FINALIZE
>>      DELETE
>>      CLEANUP

>Suppose I have, for the sake of argument, a pointer to a struct that
>comes from an external C library.  In which method under this scheme
>would I tell that library to free the memory?

Should be FINALIZE.

As I look at that list I get a distinct "What the *hell* was I
thinking?" feeling, though. I'm trying to figure out what the point
of DELETE and CLEANUP were.
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                                         Dan

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