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by int_19h 1426 days ago
This was specifically a response to:

> you know when deallocations happen in any codebase full of conditionals depending on outside effects

What I'm saying is that the author of the code, and anyone else who can read and understand it, will know that, if the user does X, Y, and Z, it'll trigger a deeply nested release of an object graph that'll cause a period of non-responsiveness visible to the user.

Whether the author will consider this acceptable or not is a different question.