> Its old hat to C programmers that you set any object to NULL when you're done with it, > which returns the memory used to the heap. That's not necessary with languages that > have garbage collection like Java, Python, etc. Yes and no. One could say that on the contrary, in languages with garbage collection the only way to (implicitly, eventually) "free" something is to make sure there are no pointers to it, i.e. set the pointers to NULL or to point to something else. There are no explicit "free" calls. (Of course, such languages generally don't use the term "pointer".) --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
