Moving discussion to mailing list.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:00 AM Anatoly Belikov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> "Bad" is a relative term. ArityLink returns NumberNodes, and after running
> for a while, the atomspace gets filled with lots of useless, pointless
> NumberNodes. They're just garbage lying around.
>
> This is not really a problem, since you can use temporary atomspace. And
> this logic applies to any link or node, since you can return any atom from
> bindlink.
>

There is currently no practical, easy, straight-forward way to copy atoms
from the temp atomspace, back into the main one.  Yes, it would be nice if
we could leave behind the no-longer-needed NumberNodes and SetLinks in the
temp atomspace, and watch them go "poof" when the temp space is deleted ..
but the results of those computations, we typically want to keep. If the
result was the creation of a new atom, how can one put  it in the main
atomspace?

--linas

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