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Date:Mon Jan 25 12:07:07 1998 
Subject:Re: Garbage Collection and O-O 
From:Bryan O'Sullivan 
Volume-ID:980125.01 

b> One flaw in the Java approach is that the set of non-tagged types
b> is fixed, so if you make a a user defined Complex type it has to be
b> tagged.

Flaws are in the eye of the beholder.  It doesn't seem unreasonable to
me to tag all objects in exchange for reduced implementation
complexity.  If the designers of Java felt a need for it to be more
like Ada, one might presume they would have gone and written an Ada
compiler instead.

	<b

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