> Am 12.01.2014 um 00:06 schrieb "Riccardo Mottola" <r...@gnu.org>: > > ARC instead is more a "taste". It is a new addition in the GC discussion. I > personally prefer ref-counting.
This seems to be a common misconception: ARC *is* reference counting; it has very little to do with garbage collection. I also think the new ownership model fits the overall language design pretty well: Just as you distinguish between method calls (object world) and function calls (C world) in traditional Objective-C, ARC-support enables you to explicitly distinguish between object references and references to untyped blobs of memory, which (coincidentally) allows the compiler to do most of the reference counting for you. Cheers, Niels _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
