[DGD] A question about object pointers

[Bart van Leeuwen]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert Forshaw wrote:

> I'd first like to say that I've tried to test this with the kernel lib using
> the 'code' command it would not work. It simply said I could not clone the
> object. Anyway, I'm confused as to whether an object pointer still holds its
> value after an object is destructed. In other words:
>
> object o;
> o = clone_object("/dummy.c");
> destruct_object(o);
> if(o) say("Object still points to something, even though it isn't
> there.\n");
> if(o == nil) say("Object doesn't point to anything.\n");

o will be nil

Which was incidentely mentioned in one of the discussions in the last few
days relating to keeping track of clones ;)


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