prototype multiple dispatch creates uncollectable garbage?

[James McCartney]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Lee Salzman wrote:

> One easy way around this is just to GC roles/methods by whether or
> not all role positions have some roles pointing to the method.

This doesn't seem so easy. Not only do you have to notice that a 
method's reference count has dropped below the number of roles, you 
have to go find each of those roles' entries in their corresponding 
objects and set them to nil. No traditional GC mechanism (e.g. 
reference counting, weak pointers) can handle this without further 
modification.

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