Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Circular references seem to be a bit like goto: You can come up with all
> > kinds of situations where it's "necessary", but in practice it happens
> > rarely if at all.)

> I disagree. Doubly-linked lists, trees with pointers up the nodes, 
> widgets with child widgets that have parent pointers, etc. Pretty much 
> everything "OO" is good at winds up generating circular references.

  Yet, as I said, languages like PHP and Objective C seem to use
reference counting without too many problems.

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                                                          - Warp

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