[comp.sys.amiga] Re

jack@citcom.UUCP (Jack Waugh) (09/03/87)

Maybe what we need is reference-counted objects.
Of course, libraries already are, but you'd have
to extend that to other resources.  Like Smalltalk
objects, each object would point (through some amount
of indirection and/or mapping) to a procedure to
delete it.  Every object (such as a process) that
could have references to other objects would have
to maintain a list of the objects referenced.  Circular
garbage would be possible, but I don't think this
would be a practical problem on a machine that
gets rebooted every few weeks.