Jason House wrote:
I think WeakRef!T would also have to be part of the offering inside
object_whatever.d. Then the example above can be fixed for the
refcounting case by making one of the references weak.
Now I wonder if the weak ref thread has (indirectly) caused the no gc
thread. Have you and/or Walter and/or Sean decided that weakref is
sufficiently tied to the gc that is should be part of the D standard
libraries?
I haven't followed that closely, but then you never know how the mind works.
PS: I discovered recently that wikipedia says D has no support for
weak references. It's always good to remove negative points about a
language ;)
Yes, weak references should be in there. I learned today that Java has
also soft references, which the gc can collect and nullify when on low
memory conditions.
Andrei
