Re: Memory leaks

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 10 Feb 2011, at 22:13, David NeÄas wrote:

> And others, Gtk+ devs probably including, consider this a useful
> optimisation â and in many cases a necessity.  You still do not seem to
> accept even the existence of this point of view.

I would say quite the reverse.  Every single person here who is arguing in favour a cleanup function is 
arguing for something that could be called optionally (and typically, on exit) as, and if, it was felt 
beneficial.  Every one of them recognises that there are situations where it might be felt not to be 
beneficial.

If anything, the problem is the other way around.  Those people who are arguing against it will not even 
countenance the thought that it has any merit whatsoever - even though it's clear that many developers want 
this functionality; many have submitted very good arguments in its favour; and most of them have given good 
explanations of why they want it.

John