Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > Not to mention having to ensure that one finds ALL the references to > the object so that they can be updated to the new address! Somehow I > don't see a C compiler being smart enough to find intermediary pointer
We're not talking about C compilers, which can cast any value at all into pointers. Languages designed for garbage collection are normally type-safe and gc is a well-understood problem, though (like compilers) the higher-performing ones are complicated. But, nothing in principle stops anyone from implementing Python with such methods. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
