Typing system vs. Java

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Fri Aug 10 12:27:40 EDT 2001


>The "subtleties of reference counting" aren't all that subtle,
>even though it's probably worth using the Boost Python
>Library to be able to forget them.

No, I tend to agree. I've written a half dozen or so extensions myself. However,
during the _first_ extension, I was a bit hazy about _when_ to incref and decref.
It wasn't clear to me what ought to grab a reference and what ought not. After
that was cleared up, I never had any problems again.

C//




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