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]> \\\ /// ]]] With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow. [[[ /// \\\