[Nasal] copying string data?

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Andy Ross wrote:
> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
>> Ok, so all vectors and hashes (and strings?) I create in a C
>> function will be temp-saved until bytecode is run? But in the
>> example above, x is not in the vector v when naNewVector() is
>> called, doesn't that mean that x could be garbage collected (if it's
>> something other than a object from a naNew*() function)? But perhaps
>> that's only numbers and they're not garbage collectable?
> 
> Yes, but x is returned from "create_something...".  I was assuming
> that somewhere down in that code the object is being returned from an
> naNew*() call, otherwise it isn't being created. :)
> 
> The only time you need to worry about naTempSave() is if you are
> *deleting* an existing reference to an object that you don't want
> collected.
...
> And yes: number in Nasal are always passed by value, and never subject
> to garbage collection.  You can't have a reference to a number, it's
> stored *inside* the naRef structure.

Ok, thanks for the clarification!
Perhaps you should put this in nasal.h above naTempSave() in case other
slow-thinkers like me comes along... :)

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