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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re:  Re: Garbage Collection & ADTs
Message-ID: <8308@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 23:38:56 GMT
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Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <62546@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by grichard@hockey.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard):
>
> If the programmer can't define when a certain object can go poof, I suspect
> a serious lack of understanding of the problem at hand.
> 

Hear, hear.

But as I pointed out earlier, it is also useful to have stack-objects
and heap-objects that allow you to reclaim a whole bunch of objects all
at one go.