Re: memory leak or not?

Cor Ligthert [MVP] <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Read my whole post,

The first object A from this reply I have showed you is not garbaged as the
MyJonObject is not instanced in this method. The second will, because it
holds outside the method no reference anymore.

object A = MyJonObject;
is different from
string A = MyJonObject.ToString();

You introduced that example *after* contradicting my earlier example,
and introduced the example for no well-explained reason.

Note, however, that *again* there is nothing magical about strings
here. If you had written:

SomeOtherType x = MyJonObject.CreateSomeOtherType();

that would be exactly parallel to

string A = MyJonObject.ToString();


In other words, the fact that I used a string type is irrelevant, and
the fact that strings are immutable is irrelevant to their garbage
collection.


To make things clear:

a) there is no difference between strings and other reference types in
terms of whether variables hold reference

b) in my first example, contrary to your reply, what I was showing most
certainly *was* a reference.

And please keep answers by what I wrote; not what you have written that *I*
wrote;

I quoted your post exactly.

if we search on how many times you did that and how many times I
have asked you that when you don't understand my replies to ask specify what
I meant than we get endless messages. Not only by me by the way. I am
writting here mostly in a style expectiong that people are proffesionals not
amateurs in development and only need few words.

You are writing here in a style which is *frequently* hard to
understand - and not just by me.


Now, you have said that you believe I am wrong. Please state *exactly*,
in precise technical terms, in what way any of what I have posted in
this thread is wrong.

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