From: Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz>
To: Per Bothner <bothner@pacbell.net>
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Blocks in g++ ?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <376207CB.2A6AAB5F@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990630154300.bxX9xUfhLZZGDBpWziL5eCh217IzMzimHs1btLlIYQY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pv329w97.fsf@magnus.cygnus.com>
Per Bothner wrote:
>
> Closures are objects. (You can simulate objects using closures and
> vice versa, fairly painlessly.) The problems is how to reclaim the
> memory used by a closure if you are passing around a reference to
> a closure object.
Why is this a problem? That is: If closures are objects, why is memory
management more difficult for closures than it is for any other kind of
object? I mean, C and C++ have had pointers since the year dot. Every
programmer has learned how to manage memory. What's different about
closures?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-30 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-10 23:40 Thomas Steffen
1999-06-11 5:44 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-06-11 6:08 ` Thomas Steffen
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Thomas Steffen
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-06-11 15:56 ` Per Bothner
1999-06-12 0:09 ` Ross Smith [this message]
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Ross Smith
1999-06-12 8:56 ` Thomas Steffen
1999-06-12 9:38 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-12 14:27 ` Martin Uecker
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Martin Uecker
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Thomas Steffen
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Per Bothner
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Thomas Steffen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-14 1:10 Thomas Steffen
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Thomas Steffen
1999-06-10 5:31 Thomas Steffen
1999-06-10 5:38 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-06-10 9:19 ` Per Bothner
1999-06-10 12:03 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Per Bothner
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Joern Rennecke
1999-06-30 15:43 ` Thomas Steffen
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