On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:44:56 -0700 Matt Aimonetti <[email protected]> wrote: > See my earlier reply, basically, you are right, it is technically > possible to change the way MacRuby works to use an automatic > reference counting approach. > But it's far from being trivial.
Wouldn't reference counting radically change the behavior of Ruby in the presence of cycles though? It would no longer be exactly the same language -- libraries that used cyclic data structures internally would need to be rewritten. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected] _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
