From: Dietmar Planitzer <email@hidden>
[long, well thought out article on GC in ObjC snipped]
You, know, for the first time in umpteen years of working with
ObjC I am actually convinced by an argument in favour of AGC!
The one thing which keeps comming to mind, however, is "how do we get
there from here" ? For myself I just use raw Objective C under Unix,
(as I assume a lot of people on this list do?) - but the majority of
people
writing ObjC out there are doing so on Apple style systems. Anyone who
survived through the change to reference counting when NXObjects
becaome
NSObjects really isn't going to want to see another sesimic shift in
the way memory allocation is handled. It was painful enough last time
round.
Or are you suggesting that "retain" and "release" simply become methods
which do nothing on those systems and we leave it all up to the GC
system ?
