Topic: Garbage collection


Author: tmurphy@panix.com (Timothy Murphy)
Date: 6 Mar 1995 12:58:03 -0500
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Garbage Collection.

   While it is of course a little late in the day to add garbage
collection to C++ (though I would support such an augmentation), it
may not be a bad idea to provide some syntactic guidelines for the
standardization of the (optional) provision of garbage collection
by C++ compiler vendors.

   Given the intimacy of the connection between memory management and
the language itself,  it is not difficult to argue that it is more important
for a language spec to provide at least a  definition of garbage collection
than it is for it to provide a definition of _any_ standard library.


-- Timothy S. Murphy: A serious user and admirer of C++.
   tmurphy@panix.com