Circular Dependancies

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8F26D44DDjoshtinamecom at 209.208.0.7>,
Josh Tompkins <josht at iname.com> wrote:
>
>I've read in a couple of places that circular dependancies are not a good 
>thing to have in a program.  I'm actually kind of curious:  why is this?  
>Is it a style thing, or something that can actually confuse the 
>interpreter/compiler?

Circular references cause memory leaks.  That's it.  Now, if you want to
know why memory leaks are bad, that's another question...
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