Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The real point about garbage collection is that it's about the only > way to ensure that an object of one type is never taken to be of > another type, e.g. by keeping around pointers to the object that > occupied its memory before it was reallocated. I believe that this > degree of type safety is worth having, which is why I favour the > addition of optional GC to C++.
But in C++, garbage collection makes no such guarantee. Think of out-of-range subscripts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list