On Apr 20, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Dean Davis wrote: > This has already been closed with comments. > This would be one of those time when it would be instructive if RB > could just let us know what they thought the pros and cons were of > each different design and why the weak ref class won out.
I'm fairly certain it was "practical to implement now" vs "would require a major compiler re-architecting which is still in the 'some day' bucket". I'm just happy to have a useful weak reference now. This is the best language feature to come along in a very long time. Regards, Guyren G Howe Relevant Logic LLC guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com REALbasic, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python programming PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting Technical writing and training _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
