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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> The problem comes (in any design) when you start using references
> rather than the actual objects;... and that way leads to madness (or
> GC, roughly equivalent ;-).

Yes, that's the point, you end up learning to love the GC, or at least
live with it.