Re: freeing lists with repetitions

Eric DeWitt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.breve
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I'd suggest that it be attached to an optional debug level.  This would 
be useful for this and other errors/warnings.  And maybe at a higher 
level we just get a message like "double free attempts were made" at 
the end of a run.

-eric


On 27 May, 2004, at 13:09, jon klein wrote:

>
> On May 27, 2004, at 4:15 AM, Rick Giuly wrote:
>
>> The code below creates warning messages because it tries to free each
>> repetition on the element in the list. What's a good way to detect 
>> this
>> problem and avoid the warnings?
>>
>> h (object).
>> h = new Hello.
>> free {h,h,h,h}.
>
> There's currently no way to automatically detect this situation and 
> avoid
> the warnings -- you'd have to step through the list and do it yourself.
>
> It's occurred to me, though, that the freed instance warnings are a bit
> irritating and almost never useful, so I'm considering getting rid of 
> them
> altogether.
>
> Do people have any opinions on this?  Are there reasons to keep these
> warnings around?
>
> - jon klein
>
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