Assigning object to nil after using 'close' function

General
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Is there any need to assign an object to nil after using it’s ‘Close’ function, for example with TextOutputStream. Is there any point in saying:

dim t as new textoutputstream
t.close
t = nil

instead of:

dim t as new textoutputstream
t.close

Does assigning the property to nil do anything and if I am declaring the variable in code, won’t t be cleared from memory when the method has finished execution.

Thanks

2

you call close to say: Close now, not later.
Else setting to nil (which Xojo does on method’s end automatically) will close if the last reference to the object is gone.