Was any decision reached about foreign dependencies?
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John, thanks for the case analysis - that made it much clearer what
ForeignDependencies are (and are not).
All sounds good.
> For Hugs & NHC, it would probably suffice to keep a list of
> dependencies in the ForeignPtr. After GC, you have to repeatedly
> traverse the live ForeignPtrs making e
> ack! no with my intended semantics, cycles are not a problem anymore
> than they are for weak pointers or the touchForeignPtr method.
> everything will still be GCed just like normal.
>
> (note that these are pretty much exactly the Weak Pointer
> semantics, if
> you like replace 'ForeignDepen
ack! no with my intended semantics, cycles are not a problem anymore
than they are for weak pointers or the touchForeignPtr method.
everything will still be GCed just like normal.
(note that these are pretty much exactly the Weak Pointer semantics, if
you like replace 'ForeignDependency' with Wea
