Format
del Object
Args
Object: Any data object (datum, savefile, world, you name it)
Destroy an object and null out all references to it. Procs that are executing with src equal to that object are silently killed, causing execution to return to the caller. If that is not what you want, you should detach the proc from the source object by setting src to null.
When an object is deleted, its Del() procedure is called. Currently, if the Del() procedure does not execute the default action (by calling ..()), then the deletion of the object is aborted. You should not depend on this, as it may change. In other words, be sure to always call the default handler after doing your own stuff.
mob/Del()
src << "Aaaaaaaah!"
..()
mob/verb/self_destruct()
del usrWhile manual object deletion is useful in many cases, the search for live references to an object does take some time. The more active objects in the world, and the more variables in those objects, the longer the search will take. For larger projects, this search time can become significant. In these cases, as a best practice, manual deletion should be avoided by ensuring that all references to an object are taken care of when the need for object destruction arises. Objects that have no references are deleted automatically without the need for a search. See garbage collection for more details.