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From: giuliano@ashtate (Giuliano Carlini)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re:  Re: Real-time Garbage Collection
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Date: 23 Sep 89 00:49:45 GMT
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From article <6519@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ):
> 
>                                                      Upon block exit, 
>     the ADT's destroy procedure will be invoked, and all the space
>     occupied by the ADT will be released.
> 
>     
>     Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

This can't work.  What if the ADT is returned as the result of the
block.  In order to handle this you either need reference counting, or
garbage collection.

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