On 17/10/2011, at 7:11 PM, Igor Evsukov wrote: > Hi Henry, > >>> And it's impossible to make Ruby to use ARC. >> >> Why? > For memory management Objective-C uses a paradigm called "reference > counting".
... > In Ruby we have garbage collector which is acts in whole different way I understand all this. But I'm not asking about _Ruby_, I'm asking about the MacRuby OBJ-C implementation of the Ruby language. > So, basically, ARC and GC are two conceptually different things which are > even not replaceable by each other(circular references). This doesn't explain why MacRuby can't be implemented with ARC rather than relying on the OBJ-C 2 garbage collector. Henry _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
