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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by mcphage on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:39PM (#7315752)
What have you done to your language that the native syntax for creating and deleting objects is a code smell?!
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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by kd0amg on Thursday February 27, 2014 @07:48PM (#7316525)
Included an alternative to new/delete's form of allocation that covers a good range of its use cases and is less prone to screwup.
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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:54PM (#7315849)
Recognized that the average programmer can't reliably handle the tool?
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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by banachtarski on Saturday March 01, 2014 @01:59AM (#7323460)
They are the primitive functions for making and destroying objects on the heap which requires more care than construction and destruction on the stack.
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