On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > However, I have to quibble with "observable". WeakRefs make GC observable. > WeakMaps do not. Running out of memory, or failing to, is not an > observation, since the spec never says when this might or might not occur > anyway. In fact, the spec as written is only faithfully implementable on a > machine with an unbounded amount of memory ;). (I regret the missed > opportunity to discuss test262 and infinite machines on April 1) > :) Agreed on all counts. "Observable" in a sense of "from practical standpoint, programmers will try to reason about it, so we should not make their reasoning hard" (or "harder than necessary") [not a quantifiable argument indeed!]. Dmitry
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