Hi Alex,<br><br>Here what I understood:<br><br>��� o := Object new.<br>��� WeakRegistry default add: o. &quot;a shallow copy of o is registered&quot;<br>��� o := nil.<br>��� Smalltalk garbageCollect.<br>��� &quot;the shallow copy of o will receive the finalize message&quot;<br clear="all">
<br>Cheers,<br><br>#Luc<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/26 Alex Schenkman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alex@schenkman.info">alex@schenkman.info</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

                <div>Let&#39;s see if I get this right:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">obj := Object new.</span></font></font></div><div><font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">objExecutor := obj executor.</span></font></font></div>
<div><font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">obj := nil.</span></font></font></div><div><font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Smalltalk garbageCollect.</span></font></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Will this execute the method <font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">finalize</span></font></font> on <font face="&#39;Courier New&#39;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">objExecutor</span></font></font>?</div>
<div>Is this the way to use it?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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                <p style="color:#A0A0A8">On Friday, August 26, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:</p>
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                    <span><div><div>On 26 August 2011 16:29, Alex Schenkman &lt;<a href="mailto:alex@schenkman.info" target="_blank">alex@schenkman.info</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi List:<br>Is there a method being called right befire an object is being garbage<br>
collected (finalized)?<br>I see toFinalizeSend:�to: with:, but I do not see any senders.<br>thanks in advance!<br></div></blockquote><br>Squeak finalization is a post-mortem finalization. The #finalize<br>message are sent to executor object,<br>
which is often a shallow copy of the object which is died.<br><br><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Igor Stasenko AKA sig.<br></div></div></span>
                 
                 
                 
                 
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