[plt-scheme] Finalization

Is there an on-garbage-collect function or something like that?

Matthew Flatt wrote:

>At Sun, 13 Apr 2003 19:13:39 +0200, Katsmall the Wise wrote:
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>>Is there any finalization needed when 'forgetting' about instants of 
>>classes, or does the garbage collector handle this?
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>The garbage collector handles everything for the built-in MrEd classes.
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>Certain Framework classes need "finalization" (e.g., to remove a frame
>from a frame group), and it's possible to define a new class that needs
>finalization (e.g., if an object opens an I/O port). The collector
>certainly takes care of memory management, though, for all classes.
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>Matthew
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