Delete a stack from memory - fails?

[J. Landman Gay]

Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>
>>> Trevor DeVore wrote:
>>>
>>>> Polling is entirely possible. delete stack is very reliable. Like I 
>>>> said, I've never had it fail. When it *appears* to fail it is 
>>>> usually because something is going on in the background that brings 
>>>> the stack right back into memory.
>>>
>>> If the stack has any pending messages running it also won't close.
> 
> Oh wait, do you mean that a handler that was calling with send in time 
> is executing at the time you issue 'delete stack'?
> 

No, you're right, it closes and is removed. What I was thinking is that 
since pending messages prevent quitting, they also prevent closing -- 
but they don't. So scratch that. Like you, I've always found "delete 
stack" to be reliable.

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