On 5/11/2014 9:47 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Sun, 11 May 2014 14:41:10 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright <[email protected]>:Your proposal still relies on a GC to provide the memory safety, […] it is a hybrid ARC/GC system.But I thought ARC cannot be designed without GC to resolve cycles.
It can be, there are various schemes to deal with that, including "don't create cycles". GC is just one of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Dealing_with_reference_cycles
