Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: Michael Thomsen Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: lack of explicit deallocation in BETA Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:06:16 +0100 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <38C8E538.DB180D26@cs.au.dk> References: <38C8118D.B80149BD@vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: karhu.cs.au.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 952690014 14135306 255.255.255.255 (10 Mar 2000 12:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Mar 2000 12:06:54 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12265 Marc Vass wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has an electronic copy or reference to a > source > which states the reasons behind not including a deallocation operator in > the BETA language? Your question is a bit unclear! Are you asking for a source explaining the reason behind - why BETA uses garbage collection, - why BETA does not have an "garbage collect me now" operation, or - why BETA does not have deconstructors that are called just before an object if gc'ed? Regards, Michael... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Thomsen - Ph.D. student in computer science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. URL: http://www.cs.au.dk/~miksen/ Email: miksen@cs.au.dk -----------------------------------------------------------------------