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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> This is easily done in present Ada using handles to a
> reference-counted objects.

That's not much different from gc from the user's perspective, other
than problems handling cycles.  Once you can use refcounting then most
of the standard applicative data structures (at least those intended for
strict evaluation)should work.