Re: Possible changes to abstract types proposal

[hartmut Goebel <hartmut@oberon.noris.de>]

Stewart Greenhill (greenhil@murdoch.edu.au) schrieb:

 >Yes, that is another way of doing it. I'm not familiar with the Oberon
 >System. If the objects are in a queue, how does the system decide when to
 >call their finalisation procedures?

The queue defacto is a array of LONGINT, not of POINTER, thus this reference
does not count. Further details I don't remember quite now.

 >never be called by users' code, only by the system. The garbage collector
 >calls FINALIZE prior to deallocating an object.

This would be another sulution.

+++hartmut