13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
12:46 a.m.
At 16:40 -0600 2001/04/11, Alastair Reid wrote:
The concrete question is: What does {_Gc Black Hole} mean?
A black hole is a particular kind of cyclic definition ... a special kind of infinite loop which, it turns out, a garbage collector is able to detect. ... Hmmm, I can see why the error message puzzled you - perhaps we should change the message? {Infinite Loop} is the best I can come up with.
Perhaps {GC detected infinite loop}. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:haberg@member.ams.org> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>