This time, the object does not become garbage.This is because in the second statement a reference to the object is savedin a second variable, beta
.Now when, in the third statement, alpha
is set to null
,there is still a reference to the object.
There can be many copies of the reference to an object.Only when there is no reference to an object anywhere does the object become garbage.
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