From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T05:18:04+09:00
Subject: Re: R

Hi,

I think all the combinations are possible.  For an example of dynamic type
without gc, we can take Python, disable its internal reference counting,
and just manually call "delete" (which is a keyword in Python) for any
object that will not be needed anymore.  It sure will look ugly, because
even for local/temporary variables, we have to "delete" them.

Regards,

Bill
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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> wrote:
> I don't see how lack of GC can be compatible with dynamic types.
> Statically typed with GC makes sense, but not the opposite...
> Would function results be passed by value (how to do it without
> static types?) or by reference (are variable values allocated on the
> stack or heap? stack => you can't return a local variable, heap =>
> you must explicitly free the result of integer addition).