Python 2.0

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* scott cotton
|
| kaffe, the gnu java implementation, has some interesting GC
| features which might be explored for python 2.0:

So does Allegro Common Lisp. I recommend anyone who's interested to go
to <URL: http://www.franz.com/> and download an evaluation copy of ACL
and read the doc/cl/gc.htm file.

Personally, I don't even hesitate to say that Python 2.0 should have
garbage collection, and preferably one that has both compactable and
non-compactable references, as well as weak references. Ref-counting
is slow and error-prone, as far as I'm aware, and should be avoided.

--Lars M.