To spare the "5.4 features vote" thread from the off-topic discussion, we can continue here. Hannes Landeholm brought this idea up, see http://news.php.net/php.internals/53956 and http://news.php.net/php.internals/53959 I would suggest that Hannes create an rfc, and add some examples and introduce the weak references in general and how this can be useful, what problems do they solve (it was discussed in the bugreport, but it wasn't clear as far as I can tell from the comments). if I understand this right, Hannes proposed adding a new Spl class(interface?), which can store and retrive a collection of variables without incrementing the refcounts, so they can be freed if they aren't used other than in this collection.
Hannes please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
