Creating and Deleting Objects

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Classes and Objects - slide 23 : 29

Creating and Deleting Objects

Possible approaches to creation and deletion of objects

Creating Objects
- By instantiating classes
  - Implicitly: via variable declarations
  - Explicitly: on demand, by command
- By copying existing object - cloning
Deleting Objects
- Explicitly: on demand, by command
- Implicitly: deleted when not used any longer - via use of garbage collection

Modern object-oriented languages support explicit object creation and implicit object deletion (by means of garbage collection)