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I'm not seeing how that would cause a memory leak. It just means that the value might be GCed a bit later. Could you give an example?
by foldr 4y ago
I'm not seeing how that would cause a memory leak. It just means that the value might be GCed a bit later. Could you give an example?
- amluto 4y agoIt’s a temporary leak. My point is that it’s an actual side effect, unlike how in C it has no effect whatsoever if the value is ignored. In a language where destruction of an object often releases external resources (C++, for example, or Python or Rust to a lesser extent), this effect would be more dramatic. Imagine someone doing this in Python: def func(): f = tmpfile(…) err = do something return f, err This style would be absurd and wrong — it keeps f alive to long.