From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T11:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Freezing Variable Assignment

Hi,

In message "Re: Freezing Variable Assignment"
    on Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:47:31 +0900, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> writes:

|> Also, is there anything such as a deep freeze of an  object graph? I'm
|> guessing not, since that would something hard to generalize easily (I
|> think of all the Java serializatoin performance problems where it
|> turned out that the data  was pulling the application code along with
|> it).
|
|I think this would only make sense when combined with a deep clone. It 
|would be nice to have GC's object graph traversal functionality exposed. 
|It is a good thing to have something like that available generally.
|
|matz, are you listening?

Yes, I am.  I think it's good to have general purpose object graph
traverser.  But I'm not going to expose GC marker, for it's tailored
for garbage collection.

							matz.