[Python-Dev] Product iteration

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Andrew Kuchling wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:08:18PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >Wrong answer.  The right answer is to fix lambda (or some variant of lambda)
> >to be a true  lexical closure.
> 
> Hm... hmmmm... fixing this has been suggested before, but always
> foundered on the fact that creating a closure required a cycle, which
> would leak memory.  Now we have an optional GC that should handle
> this, so maybe fixing it can be revisited.  (But this would mean that
> GC is essentially no longer optional -- maybe too radical a thing to
> do before we're sure about the new GC.  2.1, maybe?)

I think I'd rather have this solved by weak references then by building
cycles. Cycles are evil even in the face of GC -- you have undetermined
finalization.

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