[DUG] Dumb Friday Question

[Neven MacEwan]

Myles

As you said its better than nothing but if you really want to do some 
serious brain abuse, try to get to grips with CSS
> And reference counting sucks (esp after a few beers), but is better than
> nothing (I hate circular references!!).
> Give me a GC any day (well almost).
>
> Give palmy a break - I was there for a few years (a long time ago).
>
> Myles.
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> On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 05:13
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question
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> 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
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>>>  Tim Jarvis [Tim.Jarvis at codegear.com] wrote:
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>>>  Firstly I agree with the sentiment that you should try and avoid 
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>> 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
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>> 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
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> ...
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>> 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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