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From: Daniel Stenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> Its a good point. Its one of the valid common problems with reference 
> counting approach - cyclic references. maybe it would be good if RS were 
> able to offer one of the other tracing garbage collection methods as an 
> switchable alternative in order to address cases where an RB app is leading 
> to a large number of objects never being deleted due to cyclical references. 
> 
IMO a much better approach is to enable us to declare weak references - 
references that are not included in reference counting BUT are set to nil when  
the referene count  goes to nil OR can be tested for validity before use.
- karen
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