Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl

Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by a8da6b0c91d on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:51PM (#10120218)

perl:

    sub do_stuff {
        my $thing = Thing->new; # no need to manually destroy thing. Its DESTROY method will be called at the closing brace.
    }

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by sigzero on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:21PM (#10120469)

Cool...now I get to play. Perl does it because it goes out of scope once the sub is run. I am pretty sure you can tell TclOO to do the same thing (play time) if it already doesn't do that.

In the end, they all make trade offs depending on the "whim" of the language designer.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by a8da6b0c91d on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:35PM (#10120504)

Jesus Christ, you don't even know tcl. Why are you blathering on here? No, tcloo objects are not garbage collected. That's the whole point here.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by sigzero on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @10:26PM (#10120676)

Yeah just blathering. Carry on.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @12:43PM (#10124210)

So, about four posts before this one, you said:

> Many scripting languages in practice do reference counting GC that will reliably and deterministically clean up resources other than memory.

When challenged, you offered one. So, is this a Perl-only thing, or can you give other examples?

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