Rules governing stack purging

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Oct 30 15:23:00 EST 2006


Thank you all for the verification.

Contrary to many people's notions (including mine), it seems that merely 
reading a property of a stack will cause it to remain in memory -- even 
when that stack has its destroyStack set to false.

I had been working under the presumption that when a property is read 
from a stack that hasn't been opened, the engine merely reads the stack, 
extracts the property contents, disposes of the stack and returns the 
property contents to me.

Apparently that isn't how it works, even when a stack's destroyStack is 
true.

So while we have a workaround using this odd application of the "delete 
stack" command which doesn't actually delete the stack but merely purges 
it, I'm wondering if we should consider this behavior a bug, as least as 
far as stack with their destroyStack set to true are concerned?

Also, would it be worth pursuing a request for a "purge stack" command 
so newcomers don't get the impression that "delete stack" will actually 
delete their stack?

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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