asandroq: > Hallo, > > Andrew Coppin wrote: > > > > C++ has some interesting ideas. I haven't learned how to use templates > > yet, but what I do find interesting is that there is no automatic memory > > management, and yet you can still do fairly dynamic programming. I've > > never seen any other language that allows this. (I had assumed it's > > impossible...) This makes me wonder just now necessary GC really is, and > > whether there is some way to avoid it... > > > > Garbage collection was invented by Lisp implementors because of a > common pattern in functional languages: The sharing of parts of > structures, like lists. In an imperative world this is straightforward, > one allocates a linked list, uses it, and then releases the memory. In a
This is why memory management is a notoriously trivial problem in C++ ;) -- Don (who thinks that complicated access patterns aren't unique to FP) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
