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Re: Limbo, here I come !!

>of the garbage collectors data structures, I believe you referred to
>a reference count and/or some coloring.  Neither of those elements are
>referred to in this example.  In fact, this example makes no reference to
>explicit allocation (other than implied semantics) or deallocation which is
>nice.  Can you provide an example where you would use these heap attributes
>in a way that is compelling over just using explicit management.

but they are! and it's so natural you missed the whole
point. window is displayed on the screen. If the semantics
of the gc were not exposed who would delete the window
and more importantly when?

philw