Re: Is garbage collection here yet?
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Re: Is garbage collection here yet?

From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 18:09:28 CET



Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer@ieee.org> wrote:


> jrw32982@yahoo.com schrieb:


>> I believe that your question is the reason why references would not be


>> strings.  If they were implemented as strings, they wouldn't be able to


>> be GC'ed since string values can always be reconstituted.



> Then I'm for leaving them out of Tcl.



Yes, finally someone comes up with the long sought-for solution:


  Leave these damn strings out of Tcl  ;-)))))



SCNR :-)


Received on Sun Apr 30 02:44:24 2006