On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:14:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/8/2013 11:42 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
(True, it wouldn't give you the power of a systems language,
but that's quite
obviouly not my point -- the point is that it's a _perfectly
possible_
memory-safe language which we made, so I don't understand
Walter's comment about
a GC being "required" for a memory-safe language.)
The misunderstanding is you are not considering reference
counting as a form of GC. It is.
So you would say that C++ code (which uses reference counting)
uses garbage collection?
