There is nothing wrong with garbage collection in a compiled language. D does this particularly well. And I presume by _want to write a garbage collector_ you mean _want to ne able to manually control memory management_ which is something d allows rather elegantly in that the runtime is required to have the collector, but you can choose to use it or not.
On 24 May 2010 15:17, "Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
I'm thinking on a GSoC proposal for a C-like language that would take cues from Lua.
The problem with most new compiled languages is that they try to do stuff that Lua does, like garbage collection, neglecting the fact that the whole reason that you USE a compiled language like C is _you want to write a garbage collector_.
The biggest "theme" from Lua would be the blurred distinction between stuff like namespaces and structs (it would be differentiated by, essentially, constant folding.)
On Sun, 23 May 2010 19:16:16 -0700, Patrick <spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
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