From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-11-29T04:54:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26830] Re: Ref Counting (was KDE or GNOME curiosity question...)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote:

> I don't think this would work.  The parser can't know since Ruby is so
> dynamic and has no types.  E.g. for the class below, how would the

It's not that Ruby has "no types", but that a reference in Ruby can point
to any object type.  I'm not suggesting adding a new object type, but
rather a new reference type.

It's not a particularly good solution, since as you pointed out above,
this would keep you from using the object with 3rd-party libraries that
don't expect a reference-counted object (though in solution #1, you would
get unexpected behavior, but in solution #2, it wouldn't work at all).

Paul