_FREEIMAGE Behavior

[TerryRitchie]

I just ran across something that I did not either realize or should not be happening.

When an image is freed using _FREEIMAGE the associated variable is not reset to zero but instead retains the negative value of the image assigned. Is this normal behavior?

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image1 = _NEWIMAGE(100, 100, 32)
image2 = _COPYIMAGE(image1)

PRINT image1, image2
_FREEIMAGE image2
PRINT image1, image2
_FREEIMAGE image1
PRINT image1, image2

The code above shows that when images are freed the associated variable retains the image value. I would expect the variable to be reset to zero along with the image being removed from memory.

Is this correct?