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Assigning the null Value

Explore how assigning the null value to reference type variables in D stops their reference to objects, enabling garbage collection. Understand its impact on memory management and the lifecycle of objects and associative arrays in this lesson.

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null value assignment

Assigning the null value to a variable of a reference type makes that variable stop referencing its current object.

the actual object becomes a candidate for finalization by the garbage collector. After all, not being referenced by any variable means that the object is not ...