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Re: Objective-C 2.0



On Aug 9, 2006, at 07:11, stephen white wrote:
I don't really get this interest in garbage collection... the autorelease pools take care of temporary variables, and accessors take care of the longer term. Is GC being thrown in as a sop for the buzzword programmers?

The nice thing about GC is that it helps you with retain cycles which can be a major headache otherwise (especially in OO programs with a large, interconnected graph of objects).


Obviously GC has its own issues though ...

Greets,
  Helge
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 >Objective-C 2.0 (From: "Philippe C.D. Robert" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Objective-C 2.0 (From: Dietmar Planitzer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Objective-C 2.0 (From: Greg Hurrell <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Objective-C 2.0 (From: Dietmar Planitzer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Objective-C 2.0 (From: stephen white <email@hidden>)



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