Re: Is garbage collection here yet?

You might be interested in Neil Madden's experimental TOOT, which takes
advantage of the Tcl_Obj reference-counting mechanism you allude to:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/11543

Otherwise, I'm not aware of any OO framework for Tcl that does
automatic garbage collection. For the benefit of people who may
stumble across this discussion in the future, I think it's worth
pointing out that people still successfully program in these
frameworks, although it sounds like they may not suit your particular
tastes.

In response to your question about references, I don't expect to see
them in Tcl anytime soon; certainly, nobody has proposed a TIP dealing
with references. I think we get along fine without them, but it could
be interesting to have them just the same.

I find your criteria for "fully higher-level languages" a bit
arbitrary, but to each his own. I'm personally fond of Tcl's style and
it's "cool features", as you said... But when it comes to programming
languages, one size doesn't necessarily fit all programming problems or
all programmers.

Best regards,
Aric
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:32:59 2006