Minor tweaks to ffi addendum

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Jun 5 07:27:05 EDT 2002


>    In fact, I
>    always considered it something of a mistake to rely on automatic
>    finalizers to do anything with human visible consequences (though
>    I seem to remember that Self or Smalltalk relied on this for
>    closing windows and found it very effective).

Ah yes - if you consider that one instance of "human visible
consequences" is "not running out of memory", then I agree :-)

Cheers,
	Simon




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