Destroying objects in Java

Question

I have a general idea of how the Garbage Collector works in Java, but my reasoning for destroying an object is not because I care about freeing up memory, but because of functio

Answer 1

You simply have to avoid making 'dollar' available to places you don't want it to go. Note that this isn't really a GC issue. For a non-GC environment (like C++) someone who somehow sees a pointer to an deleted object will crash and burn if they try accessing it.