From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD87BCAE for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:52:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5P9qGxF013995 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:52:17 +0200 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00103 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:52:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.rsise.anu.edu.au (mail.rsise.anu.edu.au [150.203.208.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5P9qCLj019941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:52:15 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58961D1FB for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:52:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail.rsise.anu.edu.au ([150.203.208.4]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03736-07 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:52:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au (pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au [150.203.208.49]) by mail.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963F51B02D for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:52:09 +1000 (EST) Received: by pulp.rsise.anu.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 1560) id D82FC27B8CD; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:52:07 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:52:07 +1000 From: Pietro Abate To: ocaml ml Subject: simulate class destructor Message-ID: <20050625095207.GA597@pulp.anu.edu.au> Mail-Followup-To: Pietro Abate , ocaml ml Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux X-Organization: Research School of Information Science and Engineering (Australian National University) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mail.rsise.anu.edu.au X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42BD2950.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42BD294C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; anu:01 simulate:01 simulate:01 anu:01 ...:98 module:03 i'd:05 i'd:05 philosophy:06 edu:07 edu:07 object:09 object:09 bernard:10 i've:11 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: hi all, Is it possible to simulate class destructor, that is convince Gc to call a method before deallocating the object ? I'd like to take a closer look at what's happening in my program to check if everything works at it should... I've a NodeCounter module with a counter that increase every time I create a new object, now I'd like to decrement the counter when the object is de-allocated. Impossible ? :) p -- ++ Blog: http://blog.rsise.anu.edu.au/?q=pietro ++ ++ "All great truths begin as blasphemies." -George Bernard Shaw ++ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html