Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector
by js8 on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:10AM
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In the article, they already assume reference counting of references, see the previous paragraph:
"When the reference goes out of scope, the count is reduced. When an owned value goes out of scope and its reference count is not zero, the program terminates with an error (which I'll refer to as a "panic")."
"When the reference goes out of scope, the count is reduced. When an owned value goes out of scope and its reference count is not zero, the program terminates with an error (which I'll refer to as a "panic")."