Freeing textures after you apply them to a mesh..

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nazca
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I noticed a long time ago that if you free a texture after you've already applied it to a mesh, then the mesh still remains textured, but I assume the some memory is freed?

for example:
tex = loadtexture("texture.bmp")
entitytexture mesh1, tex
freetexture tex

tex = loadtexture("somethingelse.bmp")
entitytexture AnotherMesh, tex
freetexture tex

is it bad practice to do this?