There are various hacks that give you some functionality but nothing
without a lot of overhead AFAIK. It usually involves wrapper classes
and a bunch of casting...
This:
Dim a As New myClass
Weak b As myClass = a
Would be nice, though I realize it's not a trivial feature request.
Frank.
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On 5-Jan-07, at 5:43 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
Seem to remember someone mentioning that monkeybread supporting weak
references in their plugin collection, not ideal I know, so I'll
sign on to
that F.R in any case.
On 5/1/07 22:25, "Frank Condello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5-Jan-07, at 5:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-------------- Original message --------------
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.
Yup - been waiting years for this...
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