On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us wrote: > One potential way to solve this is to provide an interface for > refreshing the counter; for discussion purposes, I'll call this > sys.gcrefresh(obj). Barry, there are other problems with your scheme, but I won't even try to point those out: having to call a function whose purpose can only be described in terms of a concrete implementation of a garbage collection scheme is simply unacceptable. I can almost see you shouting "Come back here, I'll bite your legs off" <wink>. > The point to all this is that it gives explicit control of the > finalizable cycle reclamation order to the user, via a fairly easy to > understand, and manipulate mechanism. Oh? This sounds like the most horrendus mechanism alive.... you-probably-jammed-a-*little*-too-loud-ly y'rs, Z. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
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