Curbside Collection is a TCL answer to the problem answered by Garbage Collection in other systems.

The idea behind Curbside Collection is that the developer is a better judge of what should and should not be automagically dumped by the system. For performance reasons, most applications need certain objects to always exist at a given name, and having to request the object be transparently created for each call gets to be expensive. Especially because we are using script to create the objects, not C code or Java bytecodes. Yes, one could design several mechanisms into the Garbage Collection system that would allow an object to side step it. But why?

Curbside Collection uses a central mechanism that registers objects that are known by the developer to be temporary and fleeting. I call this mechanism "thanatos", after the Greek God of Death.