Hello, This is the official RFC discussion thread for Weak References and an announcement of the RFC.
Please read the RFC before replying: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/weakreferences In a nutshell: The RFC proposes adding a single class called "SplWeakRef" which provides the "Weak Reference" feature. This is the only change. Previous thread was here: http://news.php.net/php.internals/53963 I'm creating this new thread for several reasons. First of all I feel that the RFC is now somewhat complete and an announcement should be formally made with the [RFC] subject in accordance to the voting procedure. Also the other thread has more general discussion on internal reference counting and garbage collection. Please keep this thread on topic - specifically about Weak References and the RFC. If you plan on voting no to this feature, please reply to this thread so we can discuss your concerns. As I've previously stated, I hope that this feature can be released with PHP 5.4 since I need it for my own projects and open source framework. I don't think this is unreasonable since it's such a simple class and also non-controversial. It has been an established feature in many other major OOP languages for years. I will therefore initiate voting as soon as possible (In two weeks). Thanks Etienne Kneuss for creating the first version of the RFC and the patch and others for discussing it. ~Hannes
