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Grey Alien
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hmm, why can't I do this:

Type TMyType		
	Method Kill()
                'clear some stuff then kill the pointer to this type
		Self = Null
	End Method
End Type


I guess I'm supposed to either:

a) Make Kill a function that I pass in a pointer to TMyType as a var and then set the pointer to null

OR b) just call test.Kill() and then test = null where test is an instance of TMyType?

Thanks for any help. Maybe I don't even need to worry about it due to GC...