Object lifetime management

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Object lifetime management
• From: Brad Settlemyer <nobody@nowhere.com>
• Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello,

  I've recently begun to learn dylan, and am very pleased with some of its 
advantages over the two languages I am most familiar with (C++ and Java).  
I welcome the use automatic memory management, but I am definitely confused 
about how to manage object lifetime (Java, of course, has no reliable, 
standard mechanism for managing object lifetime; C++ has a very solid 
lifetime management scheme, but it unfortunately requires manual memory 
management in its stock form -- 3rd party libs can alleviate that problem). 
 Does the dylan language offer inherent support for object lifetime 
management, or must one use a java esque approach?

Thanks
Brad

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