Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:38 PM 8/2/00 -0400, John Tobey wrote:
> >Can I safely assume that we will be counting references for garbage
> >collection?
> 
> No.
> 
> In fact, you can safely assume that GC will be handled by some non-refcount 
> method, and that GC and end-of-scope action will be decoupled. (Whether 
> that *happens* is a separate issue, but it was the plan)

No problem.  I'll have both an addref()/delref() pair and a
protect()/unprotect() pair and use all four functions where
appropriate.  One of the pairs will be no-ops, depending on which GC
we use.  Pickle may end up bringing mark+sweep to Perl 5 as a viable
option...

By the way, an announcement:  Pickle is now called HELMI, at the
suggestion of Brent Fulgham, who has volunteered to get in on
SourceForge.  Brent explains:

    HELMI

    (Helmi is Finnish for 'pearl').

    We can then create some stupid acronym:

    _H_euristic
    _E_xtension
    _L_anguage
    and
    _M_odular
    _I_nterpreter

    coupled with the more whimsical version:

    _H_orrifyingly
    _E_clectic
    _L_anguage
    of
    _M_ass
    _I_nsanity

Thanks, Brent!

-- 
John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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