2013/2/2 David Bruant <[email protected]> > About weakrefs, I've read a little bit [2][3] and I'm puzzled by one > thing: the return value of get is a strong reference, so if a misbehaving > component keeps this strong reference around, having passed a weak > reference was pointless. >
For use cases where you're passing a reference to some plug-in/component and want the referred-to object to be eventually collected, we have revocable proxies. Weak references aren't the right tool when you want to express the guarantee that the component can no longer hold onto the object. Cheers, Tom
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