Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-19 Thread Richard Harter
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:14:42 -0700 (PDT), spinoza wrote: >On Aug 18, 1:44=A0am, James Kanze wrote: >> On Aug 17, 6:21 pm, Standish P wrote: >> >> > > Garbage collection doesn't use a stack. It uses a "heap", >> > > which is in the abstract a collection of memory blocks of >> > > different l

Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-19 Thread Richard Harter
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Nick Keighley wrote: >On 17 Aug, 18:34, Standish P wrote: >> How are these heaps being implemented ? Is there some illustrative >> code or a book showing how to implement these heaps in C for example ? > >any book of algorithms I'd have thought > >http:

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

2009-08-22 Thread Richard Harter
imes 2**172 (hex ac). I grant that this example looks a bit gobbledegookish, but normal usage would be much simpler. The notation doesn't handle balanced trinary; however I opine that balanced trinary requires special notation. Richard Harter, c...@tiac.net http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com No one asks if a tree falls in the forest if there is no one there to see it fall. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list