Re: __gc visible to lua code...

[Javier Guerra <javier@...>]

On Friday 30 March 2007, Graham Wakefield wrote:
> Well there's no harm having a close method; so long as it makes sense
> to retain a LuaSQL userdata reference that is no longer connected.
> Otherwise, I thought setting the userdata to nil would be the
> equivalent.

sometimes you want an immediate close, not wait until the GC decides it needs 
to collect the userdata.

also, remember that the GC only counts the memory used by the userdata itself; 
the backend library might use a lot more resources unaccounted by the GC.

usually having a close() is a good idea

-- 
Javier

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