OK, it's stupid question time!

I created an object called my TimerManager. To test it I ring the bell every 5 seconds. So I create my object with goTimerMgr = newobject("TimerMgr", "TimerMgr.prg"). Don't laugh, it works. When I do goTimerMgr.destroy it goes away, as expected.

But I expected that the command "release goTimerMgr", as well as the command "goTimerMgr = null" would do the same thing, but they don't.

Did I misunderstand something? Does this only work for Linked Forms?