>  most use cases would be addressed within this restriction.

It would work for me.  That does sound promising.  I was not creative 
enough to think of a way to solve it so I jumped to the conclusion it was 
impossible.

On Saturday, December 22, 2012 3:04:35 PM UTC-8, MarkM wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected] <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> The confidentiality problem is impossible to fix in weak refs
>
>
> For the record, I do not think it is impossible to fix, and I never stated 
> otherwise. 
>
> An approach we have talked about that I find promising (though I don't 
> know if it ever made it into any meeting notes) is to identify a weak ref 
> with the realm (set of globals) its makeWeakRef came from. Only if the 
> object the weak ref points to is in the same realm does it point weakly. 
> Otherwise, the weak ref points strongly. This prevents weak refs from 
> leaking gc drop info cross-realm. I believe most use cases would be 
> addressed within this restriction.
>
>  
>
>> and the
>> impression I got from reading all that stuff was that it is considered
>> a real problem.  My impression could be wrong.
>>
>> Does any other part of ECMAScript have that same problem?  If so then
>> it could be argued that it doesn't matter because the cat is out of
>> the bag.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Rick Waldron 
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>> > confidentiality problem
>>
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