Dropping objects via List

[Sven N. Thommesen]

The documentation for List and Collection states that the message

[ myList removeAll ] 

will empty a list, but if you want to actually delete the objects being
pointed to by the list, you have to cycle through them and drop them
individually first.

Looking at the code, I found that there is an [undocumented ???] method

[ myList deleteAll ] 

which will not only empty the list of pointers but also drop (remove from
memory) all objects pointed to by the list.

Came in really handy in my case!

If someone thought -removeAll did what -deleteAll actually does, that would
certainly look like a big memory leak ...

Cheers,
Sven


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