Thanks Etienne, I was waiting for this for a while! I wrote a blog post how to get best benefits from weak references: http://blog.juzna.cz/2011/08/weak-references-in-php/ Perhaps this will help showing people what are they good for.
And thanks to PECL extension I hope we can start using them in my company very soon in our extension of Zend_Db. Jan Dolecek juzna...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Etienne Kneuss <col...@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > > http://pecl.php.net/package/Weakref has been created, and the > standalone code should compile fine (I checked for 5_3 only but > everything should be smooth for 5_4/trunk) > > The next planned addition is a StrongRef class, following the exact > same interface as WeakRef only that it is always valid and get() > always return the ref. The reason for it is that code can switch > between the two transparently. > > Best, > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 14:49, Hannes Landeholm <landeh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Good idea. I will see what I can do when I get time. >> >> ~Hannes >> >> On 3 August 2011 12:32, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> hi Hannes, >>> >>> I would suggest to still update the RFC with the various very >>> instructive comments and example use cases you use in this thread. >>> Doing the same in the long run should help as well to understand the >>> goals, implementations, etc., for the pecl users or for the 2nd >>> attempt to get it in the core, if still desired. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Hannes Landeholm <landeh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> We had a healthy discussion around WR and I have been able to express >>>> my concerns. The consensus is clearly to put it in a PECL extension so >>>> I think this discussion should move on to the practical matters of >>>> doing this. I suggest aborting the vote and changing the RFC state to >>>> something like "Transfered to PECL". >>>> >>>> ~Hannes >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pierre >>> >>> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org >>> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > > > -- > Etienne Kneuss > http://www.colder.ch > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
