Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!megatest!djones 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 References: <62546@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca Lines: 11 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.