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Re: OO matlab - deleting objects
Posted:
May 18, 2009 8:36 PM
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On May 18, 6:43 pm, "Nasser Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> <krindikzulm...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:0beda853-2849-4199-9986-2543f502f482@d7g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
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> > Do we have to do explicit memory cleanup in matlab
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> No. See below
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> http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/digest/2008/sept/matlab-...
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> "Object Life-Cycle Management
> MATLAB implements a strategy for object life-cycle management that supports
> destructors and destroys objects as soon as they become unreachable from any
> MATLAB workspace. The MATLAB language has always managed memory allocation
> by destroying workspace variables when a function exits, either through an
> error or through a normal return to the calling context. We wanted to
> preserve this simple model but also extend it to handle objects that might
> persist beyond the execution of a function (by being returned to a calling
> function or stored in some other object returned to a calling function).
> A MATLAB handle class can define a delete method that behaves very much like
> a destructor in languages like C++ (Figures 3a and 3b). In MATLAB, a delete
> method is called just before an object is destroyed because the object can
> no longer be accessed from any MATLAB variable. The delete method can be
> used to close a file, close an external application, or notify another
> object that needs to react to the destruction of the first object. It is
> defined by the handle class, and only handle classes have destructors in
> MATLAB. "
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> "Some programmers might find it strange that non-handle objects have no
> destructors. Since MATLAB object destruction is always automated, a
> non-handle object that holds other objects does not need to do anything to
> destroy those other objects."
>
> --Nasser
Thanks. But I saw the above mentioned code from an experienced matlab
pro
Even mathworks says below
"a non-handle object that holds other objects does not need to do
anything to
destroy those other objects"
does this imply handle objects do have to clean objects inside them
explicitly?
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