Re: Should the Dispose( ) method only run when there are no other references to an object?



"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eSZ5zzdPHHA.4924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Steve Richter" <StephenRichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1169438284.988182.270380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
thanks for confirming that. I can accept that I have to program for it.
I am thinking that the absence of reference counting from .NET objects
is a failing of its design.

It's not a failing, the very idea was to get rid of ref counting.

To be fair, ref counting is semantically superior, but it's more expensive than garbage collecting.


Can I define a ReferenceCountObject class
that is derived from Object. Then base any class of mine that I want to
maintain a reference count in from that class? How would such a class
work to update the reference count when the object is passed by
reference to a method or added to a list?

It wouldn't. Reference counting would need to be baked into the low-level memory management of .NET so that all those reference assignments operations correctly maintained the reference count.


David

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