Nick Jacobson wrote: > While we're on the subject of Python 3000, what's the > chance that reference counting when calling C > functions from Python will go away? > > To me this is one of the few annoyances I have with > Python. I know that Ruby somehow gets around the need > for ref. counting. > Reference counting is an implementation detail, and isn't a part of the language specifications. I have no idea why you find it so annoying, but there are other implementations (Jython, Iron Python) that don't use it.
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