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drop

What happens to a value when its owner goes away: it is cleaned up.

Dropping a value runs its Drop implementation, if any, and frees the memory it owns.

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Examples

  • A String declared inside an inner block has its heap buffer freed at that block's closing brace, before the outer variables are dropped.

See also

ownership destructor scope
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