Re: Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:56:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b | ||
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> AL>> We should place things like ref-counting and so on in the manual too,
> AL>> perhaps in an appendix.
>
> What for? Refcounting is not visible from userspace in no way, why do you
> need it in the manual?
When you start using & and worrying about memory allocation (as a programmer
is wont to do) it's very visible to the user...
You can use other terms to describe it in the documentation of &, but it's
there one way or another.