>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:38:12PM -0400, John Tobey wrote:
>> Can I safely assume that we will be counting references for garbage
>> collection?
>Ref counting isn't garbage collection.
>http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html
That's one opinion--it's not the Word of God.
Ref counting *is* automatic memory management, and I suspect that
one would be hard-pressed to find any critical distinction between
those two terms (AMM and GC) in conventional parlance as practised
even by professional programmers.
--tom
