Re: [Exult-general] That which is not dead...

[Jeff F. <fre...@he...>]

Max Horn wrote:
>
> Actually, you are right Jeff; however, this happens in more places
> then just for "nearby NPCs". E.g. Projectiles keep a pointer to the
> "gunner"...

Arggh.

> 
> The way Ryan wanted to fix this was by introducing an Actor_ref class.

Yes.  Note that this problem came up before in the Usecode interpreter,
which is why 'delobjs.{cc,h}' exist.  Sometimes, the Usecode would
delete something, but then refer to it again.

These problems make garbage collection appear more and more appealing.