Rooting around in the Forum: destructors

[Bob Sneidar]

It's a scripting language. It's not the job of Livecode to do memory management. In fact it's hardly the job of modern apps to do it. The OS manages most of that. For us, the App is the livecode engine, and not our script. 

Bob S


> On Jun 3, 2017, at 09:46 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Not having looked at any sort of "serious" programming language since about 1989 (I don't think that VB 6 is a serious language),
> I find it hard to understand what a destructor is beyond a way to free memory on a system that has constraints in that area.
> 
> HOWEVER: as there is no thing in Livecode having "destrucor" written all over it in big letters for slow characters
> like myself could some one tell me:
> 
> 1. Does Livecode have something(s) that does the job of a destructor?
> 
> 2. If so, where is it and so on?
> 
> 3. If not, why not?
> 
> Richmond.