Yes, what you said happens.<BR><BR>The GC can figure out what you're doing easier if you make a = null before you assign a = new aClass () again. (At least, it did in the 1.2 era. No idea if the ...

For the past 7 years I've been working almost exclusively with Java, with a bit of csh/bash scripting and a few simple single-line fixes to C code. My C++ experience is pre-1997. Temporarily ...