[Python-Dev] Re: DEBUG_SAVEALL feature for gc not in 2.0b1?

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:21:14 +1200 (NZST)


Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr (Vladimir Marangozov):

> The point is that we have two types of garbage: collectable and
> uncollectable.

I don't think these are the right terms. The collector can
collect the "uncollectable" garbage all right -- what it can't
do is *dispose* of it. So it should be called "undisposable"
or "unrecyclable" or "undigestable" something.

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