> Decisions of GC models rapidly become religious arguments.
The most important argument is: Does a particular
GC model meet the Perl 6 language requirements?
Reference counting fulfills the language requirement
for deterministic destructor calls. (Those
destructors might be freeing non-memor
> Why would the programmer become confused? In C++ (a mainstream OO
> language), if a Dog constructor was defined that took a string as an
> argument, the string would be auto-converted to a Dog.
Yes, C++ implicitly treats single argument constructors
as conversion constructors. They convert th
