garbage collection

Imagine a virtual machine that uses scopes, with variables indexed by their name's starting character for quick access times. Every call, a scope is pushed onto the scope stack. Every return, that scope is popped and destroyed, including the variables it holds.

So, why do people use anything else? Can it not possibly be this simple? `What about pointers', you say; every variable is in a scope, therefore every pointer points to something in a scope (only concerning heap allocated variables for this sake) . Nullify the pointers. The pointed to will be deleted.

Simple.

Congratulate yourself. You've reinvented escape analysis in a shittier form, without understanding why you still need a heap.

>>1
This is exactly the way I imagined it the first time I was trying to design a small scripting language. My first ever thoughts for garbage collection

>>2
implying there isn't a heap

So data structures are not allowed to contain references to other data structures?

>>5
It's good enough for APL. The closest thing APL has to references is using ⍎ (eval) on the name of a variable.

>>5
References are shit.

dynamic scope is shit

OP's brain will be destroyed when he'll learn ret N command in assembler. Real assembler, no VM shit.

OP should learn Rust.

Saging just because.