The Scopes Programming Language

Post by yoklov » Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

paniq303 wrote: post #28

tom_mellior wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also, why "fortunately"? Because I think it's a lot harder (both for you and for your users) than you thought at the time, and I hoped you wouldn't waste your time (and your users' time) on it. Personally, I think GC is the way to go to keep your (programmers') sanity. If you worry about GC pauses in time-critical sections, provide for a way to turn off the GC temporarily for such sections. You might want to mark s…

> Because I think it's a lot harder (both for you and for your users) than you thought at the time, and I hoped you wouldn't waste your time (and your users' time) on it. I believe it is possible to offer such a feature without declarative baggage. If it's not, then I don't want it ;-) > Personally, I think GC is the way to go to keep your (programmers') sanity. If you worry about GC pauses in time-critical sections,…