unreachable without reference count? do you have an example different from
a private scope object that is reachable from that scope so I would not
call it unreachable?
In any case I understand your leaks point and if WeakMap solves this, but I
strongly believe no shim will be able to emulate this behavior, no matters
how much articulated the implementation is ( taking that google shim as
example that also won't work as it is in older browsers in any case )
Then this is a dead line, something that you said makes sense as problem,
won't be solved natively because it can be implemented via libraries ...
but if this is the logic, I wonder what is ES5 about with all its extras (
Array, Function, String, etc )
Regards
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Bruant <bruan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 06/01/2012 12:23, Andrea Giammarchi a écrit :
>
> it doesn't ... as soon as you release the reference to o no leaks persists
> but of course until you keep o on hold those unique callbacks cannot be
> released ...
>
> If you're telling me that keeping only one of the object or the function
> alive but not both keeps the bound function alive, then you do have a leak.
> The bound function only has a reason to exist if both the object and the
> function remain in the program.
>
>
>
> but this would be true with WeakMap too, isn't it?
>
> No it wouldn't. Since WeakMaps keep weak references, you can't have the
> type of leaks I just described. As I said in [1], the bound function will
> be kept in memory only if both the object and the function are still
> strongly held somewhere (so the weakmap doesn't count).
>
>
>
> In any case, boundTo is suitable for listeners and the whole point is to
> do not hold manually those function
>
> once again
>
> window.addEventListener("whatever", o.boundTo(o.method), false);
> // later on
> window.removeEventListener("whatever", o.boundTo(o.method), false);
> // that's it
>
> We can reuse/add the listener later on without problems but as soon as
> object "o" will be unreachable (no reference count === 0)
>
> "Reference count === 0" and "unreachable" are different properties.
> An object can be unreachable even with a reference count different of 0.
>
>
>
> everything will be fine
>
> This, versus this anti pattern
>
> o._leMethodBound = o.method.bind(o);
> window.addEventListener("whatever", o._leMethodBound, false);
> // later on
> window.removeEventListener("whatever", o._leMethodBound, false);
>
> o._leMethodBound is exposed
>
> only because of your implementation.
>
>
> and used only to hold a bound method ... we have all done this until
> now, and to me it's kinda illogical, boring, error prone
>
> I fully agree with your use case. Yet, you still haven't answered my
> question:
> If browsers implemented your proposal, it would certainly be in new
> versions that will certainly already have WeakMaps built-in. In this case,
> what would be the benefit of a native implementation rather than a library
> of yours?
>
> Regarding your earlier argument about 'bind' being often implemented in
> libraries, it has to be noted that ES5 version of bind has features that
> ES3-based polyfill cannot emulate including being safe against redefinition
> of 'call' and 'apply'.
>
> David
>
> [1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-January/019306.html
>
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