From: Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T14:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Manual Memory Management

Evan Weaver wrote:
> Python supports 'del reference', which decrements the reference
> counter by one and removes the variable name from scope. I would
> really like to see that in Ruby.
> 
> Evan
> 
I had idea of reference counting GC for a moment, I'm not sure how hard 
it would be to implement and if it's actually usable.

Mental: isn't reference on c-stack still REFERENCE ? what's the problem 
with traversing ruby and c stack, finding every reference to object - 
changing it to Qnil. then collecting object ?