On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say > that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety, > it *has* to have some sort of automatic storage management system.
I don't think that necessarily follows; a manual mechanism for freeing resources would then just set the reference to a NULL value. But I think that most strongly typed languages do have automatic resource management of some sort, because it is so useful :}
