Re: Compiler writers will love this language

mwotton@cse.unsw.edu.au (Mark Alexander Wotton)
8 Jun 2003 21:57:18 -0400

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From: mwotton@cse.unsw.edu.au (Mark Alexander Wotton)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Jun 2003 21:57:18 -0400
Organization: Mare's Nest Collective
References: 03-05-211 03-06-015 03-06-054
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 08 Jun 2003 21:57:18 EDT

On 5 Jun 2003 23:22:01 -0400, Eric posted:
>
> I am having difficulty imagining a type which is implemented using
> pointers and ensures that null cant occur. This would imply that for a
> variable of such a type, memory would be allocated and then never
> released.


Either that, or only released when all references to it have passed
out of scope. This is how many modern garbage-collected language
implementations work.


mrak

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