Progress on the Gilectomy

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/19/2017 08:06 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>> Reference counting is a valid garbage collecting mechanism, therefore Python is also a GC language.
>
> Garbage collection is usually thought of as a way to remove responsibility for tracking of live data from the user.
> Reference counting doesn't do that.

Caveat:  I'm not a CS major.

Question: In the same way that Object Orientation is usually thought of as data hiding?

Comment:  Except in rare cases (e.g. messing with __del__), the Python user does not have to think about nor manage live 
data, so reference counting seems to meet that requirement.  Programming at the C level is not working in Python, and 
many Python niceties simply don't exist there.

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~Ethan~