Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!shap From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Garbage Collection Keywords: non-religious C++ garbage-collection Message-ID: <5422@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 2 Dec 88 19:53:07 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 16 Several people at Stanford seem to feel that C++ would be improved, for some applications, by garbage collection. The idea is not to alter the language always, but to introduce a compiler option to indicate that support for garbage collection should be compiled in and link in a garbage collector. [Actually, they wan't to GC on an object-type by object-type basis, but one step at a time] The advantgage of garbage collection is that it permits storage reclamation to be the environment's problem, which for some applications is desirable. I have some thoughts on how to do it without changing the semantics of C++. I would be curious if others think this idea is worth examining and how they feel it might be done. Jon