On Friday 24 January 2003 15:44, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gustaf Neumann wrote:
we could provide an option -bind <varname> to the new instproc to allow the user to specify a local or a per-object or global variable name, but this does not provide reference counting at all. i have started some time ago
Oh, I meant to say that an option to [new] is not necessarily the best. Often (at least in my case) it is a method of an object which creates an instance and returns it, like:
set msg [$cmdReader getNewMessage]
So at the level where I want the automisation I don't directly call new. Naturally this could be changed to accommodate the use of new, but then my interface wouldn't be as cleanly split up.
i don't get your point: getNewMessage has to create the Object, so it can use certainly new (with all variants). is your argument: the caller of newmessage should decide, whether the created object should be dynamically reclaimed or not?
anyhow, it is not hard to do it one or the other way....
-gustaf