call(
window, "draw: %d %d %p", x, y,
alloc("Circle radius: %d color: %u", r, 0xFF0000)
);
This is all in response to the article claiming you "need to be Bjarne Stroustrup to add OOP to C, but it's a sophomore assignment to add it to Lisp". If I hadn't mentioned the GC, someone else would've jumped on the example for how unpleasant manual memory management is in comparison to Lisp.
> If you're willing to use a garbage collection library [0], you can even have a pleasant syntax for ObjectiveC style OOP in C:
That sounded to me as if you were claiming that GC is a pre-requisite for having a particular syntax. But I gather that's not what you meant. I'm still a little unclear about what you actually meant. You can have memory leaks like the one in your example above in vanilla C without any OOP features at all. GC is completely orthogonal to OOP, and both are completely orthogonal to syntax.
var temp = alloc("Circle radius: %d color: %u", r, 0xFF0000);
var ignored = call(window, "draw: %d %d %p", x, y, temp);
drop(ignored);
drop(temp);