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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@mail.earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Ada and GC. Was: Re: Ammo-zilla
Date: 1999/11/02
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Given that Ada packages (or at least their private areas) are separate
from the rest of the code:
garbage collection could achieve almost all of it's desired ends if the
implementation of garbage collection within a package *required* that
unchecked de/allocation (and other unsafe constructions) not be used
within that package.
This would allow dynamic constructions that were isolated into separate
packages to co-exist with their more consicously manipulated brethern
within the same program.