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Re: Atomic scripts


  • Subject: Re: Atomic scripts
  • From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
  • Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:50:47 -0400
  • Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous

Chris Nebel writes:

> Nice of you to say so, Paul, but it's not relevant to this. It was
> actually a design decision to explicitly detect circular references and
> deal with them. Most languages don't bother, because the checks take a
> noticeable amount of time and memory, and the standpoint that if
> someone asks you to do an infinite amount of work with finite resources
> they deserve what they get is not an entirely unreasonable one. :)

So you're saying that Apple chose not to live up to their address?


Michael

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