On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:28:44 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
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?
Yes.
Reference counting is a poor man's form of garbage collection and
almost every book about garbage collection starts by introducing
reference counting, before moving on to mark-and-sweep and all
the remaining algorithms.
Both fall under the umbrella of automatic memory management.
Oh, a bit off topic but are you aware that C++11 has a GC API?
--
Paulo
