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  Re: Negative array indicies and slice() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-02 05:53 +1100

#32569 — Re: Negative array indicies and slice()

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Andrew Robinson
<andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> wrote:
> presently slice() allows memory leaks through GC loops.

Forgive me if I've missed something here, but isn't it only possible
to make a refloop by decidedly abnormal behaviour? Stuff like:

a=[]; a.append(slice(a))

Seriously, who does this? First you have to have a reference to a
container in place of an index, and then you have to retain the slice
object inside that same container as well. Neither operation is normal
use of a slice. Where is the problem?

ChrisA

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