Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> Almost every line of
> code can lead to an error exit.  The code becomes quite cluttered when
> it uses reference counting.

I don't see why very many more error exits should become
possible just by introducing refcounting. Errors are possible
whenever you allocate something, however you do it, so you
need error checks on all your allocations in any case.

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