Python 2.0

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Vadim Chugunov <chega at my-deja.com> writes:

|Personally I would hate it, if Python had ever adopted a garbage
|collection without keeping a reference counting.
|As many people have noted before, you would not be able to use
|destructors to free up resources like memory or file descriptors.

I don't get it.  There's no relation between destructors and real
garbage collection.  For example, Java uses destructors called
finalizers, even though most Java VM use real GC.

I hate ref counting.  It is memory-leak prone, does not reclaim cyclic
data without explicit cycle-cut.  I know, by ref counting, object is
recycled as soon as it looses last reference to it, but relying on
that behavior is error prone, I think.

						matz.