Jass Functions - Do they Need a Space? (Or Memory Leak?)

[Mr.Pockets00000]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/world-editor-help-zone-98/player-group-leak-173958/

does this mean with all jass destructor functions, we have to use a space or it will leak? I was unaware of this, as this tutorial (http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=27219) told me otherwise, and this is where I learned a lot of my warcraft memory leak cleaning. I gained a further understanding by studying C++ with how this works, but i didn't know of spaces being an issue or needed

ex

call RemoveLocation(udg_tmp_point)

vs

call RemoveLocation ( udg_tmp_point )

 

[chobibo]

Whitespaces don't cause leaks lol.

 

[Mr.Pockets00000]

Whitespaces don't cause leaks lol.

okay that's what i thought, didn't make much sense to me (but you never know)

as point, unit group, player group (etc) variables are just pointers

point -> (x, y) dynamic variable

destroy point.

point pointer empty, ready to point to new without causing leak

 

[Ceday]

Yes, indeed.Not sure what crazy things going on your first topic link.

 

[Mr.Pockets00000]

Yes, indeed.Not sure what crazy things going on your first topic link.

yeah I think they were all trolls/ didnt know what they were saying.

Just had a moment of OMG WHAT IF EVERYTHING I'VE CODED UP TILL NOW IS ALL LEAKING WAAAAA

 

[chobibo]

Those whitespaces would take space though.

Anyway, to make sure you don't get leaks, you have to make sure to: a) Destroy or Remove objects after using them and they no longer have any purpose and b) make all variables point to null after destroying it's contents, *or you can just overwrite it if you can.

Note: mostly applied to global variables, since it is vital for local variables to be pointed to null when a the function utilizing it is exited.

 

[Bannar]

You must be a funny and creative guy :"D
You made my day.

 

[EdgeOfChaos]

1: Totally unrelated to leaks
2: Doesn't take space after map is optimized as whitespace is removed.

 

[Dr Super Good]

White spaces (that are not required by the syntax) contain information and as such increase map size. They do not alter the functional behaviour of the script in any way. Again it is important to note that only some white space counts as this, other white space is part of the syntax and so cannot be omitted if the script is to be parsed.

Here are some examples...

Necessary white space.

function f takes nothing returns boolean
set x=1
call something(somethingelse)
return true

Unnecessary white space.

if     something     then //only 1 space needed, not lots, ignore spaces for comment
    return      //both before and after comment and even in the comment is unnescescary
endif
set x = x + 1 //spaces between terms not required, ignore spaces for comment

White spaces can mostly be ignored. It is much better to produce readable and maintainable script and let an optimizer reduce the white spaces for publishing than to create a mess to save the odd byte here and there.