The quest to understand refcnt
"RokuMarkn" wrote: The ref count is the number of variables referring to the object. It's set to 1 when you do CreateObject, and it get incremented every time a new variable is set to refer to that...
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"dev42" wrote:
Part of the confusion is that they are local variables. If the function has returned then in my mind the local variable should have disappeared and along with it the reference count it held.
That's not just in your mind, that's the truth. All local variables are destroyed when a function exits. If any of them contains an object reference, the object's ref count is decremented.
--Mark
