In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said: > > IMO Weak references should be reserved for users who accept possible > consequential problems, but should never be used in standard libraries. > At least I'd suggest to make weak references subject to an compiler > switch, so that every user has a chance to disable them in case of trouble.
IMHO weak references trade one manual memory system in for a different manual memory system. The hard part of manual memory systems, figuring out how a complex dynamic structure deallocates (that is usually tackled by having a bit of design and thought go into it), remains. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
