[DUG] Dumb Friday Question

[Neven MacEwan]

Giovanni

If the sun is shining in palmy its probably 4 below 0

You should definatetly be using intefaces not pointer for this this way 
you can do reference counting

Neven

> >  Tim Jarvis [Tim.Jarvis at codegear.com] wrote:
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> >  Firstly I agree with the sentiment that you should try and avoid 
> creating objects
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> >> in one place and freeing in another ...
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> This whole discussion is close to my heart. I've got a 
> similar horrible situation where I've got a factory that produce 
> objects that have 3D coordinates and these are passed around, may have 
> their coordinates updated, and may end up get fed to a genetic 
> optimiser, which may replicate the object (possibly many times) for 
> the next generation.  I've had to clone the objects which isn't 
> pleasant. It's so easy with numbers/records and so messy with objects ...
>  
> It's made me want to move to a language that has proper, transparent 
> garbage collection. Anyone remember Lisp?
> ** 
> Time to go out into the sunshine and forget about memory management 
> :-) It's a glorious afternoon in Palmerston North - contrary to 
> popular belief, we do have them ...
> ** 
> Cheers
> Giovanni
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