On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:34 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW in "automatic garbage collection" which of the three words is most > important? Least?
Most important is "garbage". I sure don't want any language I use to automatically collect non-garbage!! But in seriousness, the definition of "garbage" is one of the trickier things to work out, hence the variety of schemes (mark/sweep, refcount, various forms of cycle detection, etc). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
