Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:38 PM 8/2/00 -0400, John Tobey wrote:
> >Can I safely assume that we will be counting references for garbage
> >collection?
>
> No.
>
> In fact, you can safely assume that GC will be handled by some non-refcount
> method, and that GC and end-of-scope action will be decoupled. (Whether
> that *happens* is a separate issue, but it was the plan)
No problem. I'll have both an addref()/delref() pair and a
protect()/unprotect() pair and use all four functions where
appropriate. One of the pairs will be no-ops, depending on which GC
we use. Pickle may end up bringing mark+sweep to Perl 5 as a viable
option...
By the way, an announcement: Pickle is now called HELMI, at the
suggestion of Brent Fulgham, who has volunteered to get in on
SourceForge. Brent explains:
HELMI
(Helmi is Finnish for 'pearl').
We can then create some stupid acronym:
_H_euristic
_E_xtension
_L_anguage
and
_M_odular
_I_nterpreter
coupled with the more whimsical version:
_H_orrifyingly
_E_clectic
_L_anguage
of
_M_ass
_I_nsanity
Thanks, Brent!
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John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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