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Bruce Hoult wrote:

> Garbage collection has a *lot* to do with this problem!
> 
> A large proportion of assignments in languages such as C++ are done 
> merely in order to resolve the question of who owns an object and who is 
> responsible for eventually deleting it.
> 
> With GC available, objects are seldom copied with pointers to them being 
> passed around instead.  You don't care who "owns" the object, because it 
> just magically goes away when all the pointers to it get forgotten.


You don't get to redefine the problem so that your favorite technique
becomes the solution.