[Mono-list] Mono Sqlite Question

[Chris Howie]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Marc Glenn <mjamon at ntsp.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>     I want to ask why it is important to assign null to the Sqlite objects
> used in the main function.
>     Since the function will exit and the local variables used will be
> deallocated,
>     Is it really important to assign null to those variables?
>     Is there a specific behaviour of Mono Sqlite that I should know about?

Those lines will do pretty much nothing, semantically speaking.
Usually when you dispose or "close" something in general it's a good
idea to assign null to it, but usually that's more in the case of
object fields when that object may still exist for a while.  This
allows the GC to reclaim those objects if the object that was holding
references isn't eligible for GC yet.  In this case it's not necessary
or useful.

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