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[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Guido van Rossum wrote:

<snip/>
> ...this almost seems acceptable: in the formal semantics, objects
> that are part of cycles would live forever, and as an invisible
> optimization we recycle their memory anyway if we know they are
> unreachable.  (I've got the feeling that I've seen this rule before
> somewhere.)  
<snip/>

No, that can't be. If we did, it were in Scheme, and after you put it in,
you'd be morally obliged to add full-fledged lambda, tail-recursion and 
user visible continuations. 

you-asked-for-it-ly y'rs, Z.
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Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>. 
QOTD: My own exit is more likely to be horizontal then perpendicular.