On 20/10/2020 5:51 pm, Kim Barrett wrote:
On Oct 20, 2020, at 3:21 AM, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
On 20/10/2020 5:01 pm, Kim Barrett wrote:
On Oct 20, 2020, at 2:09 AM, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
I think that can be addressed by considering a Reference created with a null
referent to be immediately cleared.
I think if it’s treated as immediately cleared then it should also be
immediately enqueued. But immediate
Mandy's comment implied that references with a null referent never get
enqueued. Otherwise when would they get enqueued? There would be nothing to
trigger it.
You said “immediately cleared”; that’s the trigger. Mandy said “never cleared
or enqueued”, which is different.
Mandy said never enqueued and that is what I would expect even if
considered "immediately cleared". A reference set with null is never
cleared by the GC, nor ever enqueued, but it is implicitly and trivially
"cleared" at construction.
"cleared" is just a synonym for "referent == null".
David
