On 14/03/2012 02:36 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 14.03.2012 10:55, schrieb Invisible:
>
>>> Note that the dispose is gone for good. Shared pointers use reference
>>> counters to accomplish this feat.
>>
>> Every time I hear somebody say this, a part of me wants to scream "you
>> /do/ understand that reference counting doesn't actually work, right?"
>
> Which is because...?

Allow me to rephrase: Reference counting works if and only if the node 
reference graph is acyclic.

Sometimes it's feasible to ensure that this is the case. Sometimes it is 
not.

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