From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk Date: 2002-10-01T06:25:34+09:00 Subject: Re: R Tue, 1 Oct 2002 05:18:04 +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata pisze: > 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's unusable in practice. I talked about programming languages which anybody would want to use :-) Memory management would be worse than in C. Any function/operator argument which is itself a function/operator call would have to be stored in a local variable and freed after the call... -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/