Re: Disposing of Objects?

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From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Disposing of Objects?
Date	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:00:13 -0800 (PST)
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Davej wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> What do you mean by "reinstantiating"?
>>
> 
> 
> I have q declared as a global inside the main class...

No, you don't.

Java doesn't have globals.

> public class MortgageView extends FrameView {
>   Mortgage q;//globals

That isn't even 'static', much less "global".

Stop calling that "global".  It's the very opposite of global.

> ...then inside the button event handler I execute...
> 
> q = new Mortgage(amt, term, int);//creates table

Creates a new instance of 'Mortgage', then assigns the pointer value (*not* the object) to 'q'.

Whatever pointer value 'q' used to hold is now gone from 'q', erased by the new pointer value.

Yes, I am repeating what others have been saying.

> ...if the button is pressed again the statement is executed again. I
> would call this "reinstantiation."

And you would be wrong.

-- 
Lew

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