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Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> writes:

> I don't know why anyone would hate garbage collection. That seems like a
> rather odd sentiment. It also seems that if this is true he'll never be
> satisfied, since GC is just the extreme on the automatic end for memory
> management; all non-GC mem managers are "by hand" at some level.

By "by hand", I mean the malloc/free or new/Unchecked_Deallocate style
of C, Ada, Pascal, etc.  Cyclone's regions are not "by hand", and can
replace GC safely and efficiently -- if your program matches the
necessary restrictions.

> Well, it ain't derived from Ada!

I meant regions, specifically.

>... Anyways, pattern matching, like all
> modern functional languages have, would be a worthy addition to an
> Ada like language.

Feel free to sketch out your ideas.  I'd be interested.

> > As you say, it's worthy of study; Tucker has mentioned some ideas for
> > making it more powerful.
> 
> I must have missed this. Did the discussion happen here, or elsewhere?

No, sorry, I didn't mean here.  These discussions happened in my
office and Tucker's office.  ;-)

- Bob