No. I think cleaning up, manually or automatically, after objects go out of scope is not the same as garbage collecting. "Garbage" here implies objects that lin

No. I think cleaning up, manually or automatically, after objects go out of scope is not the same as garbage collecting. "Garbage" here implies objects that linger beyond their usage scope, from construction to destruction, and now have become garbage taking up memory that can only be reclaimed by an extraneous routine, ie the GC.