In message <4c82b097$0$1661$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to have reference counting only, an enforced > prohibition on loops (backpointers must be weak pointers), RAII, > and reliably ordered finalization. Is there a cheap way of checking at runtime for circular structures? > A big advantage of reference counting is that finalization happens > in the thread that releases the object, and in the correct order. > GC and finalization/destructors do not play well together at all. > Microsoft once tried to get the hard cases to work right. See > "managed C++". Not a happy story. Thank you for that. Another arrow for my anti-GC quiver. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
