From: Adam 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> Object lifetime isn't the same thing as memory management. Consider a
> database transaction, or any resource lock. Why you want your underpressure,
> tired etc programmers time after time having to do their own rollbacks or
> releases is beyond me.

A) So people doing C++ don't have to release channels to db'es or to deal
with transactions? If so then hey there's one more thing they have to do as
well as allocating & reclaiming memory.

B) Rollbacks etc i.e. transaction handling is most often a business matter
& not a languge matter esp wrt distributed transactions where 5
different systems must all get the message & understand it & then
the whole can be committed.


>
> OTOH garbage collection isn't a panacea, however you manage memory if your
> programmers don't know what they're doing you're heading for trouble.
>

Indeed howeve rnot having to deallocate memory is one less point of failure
to worry about. Yes you do get hanging references & yes they can be
annoying to track down but I have yet to see a hanging ref steadily chew up
memory till there s none left.

Adam

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