On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > The two uses I've seen of this method > (RequiredSelectors>>registerLifelongInterestOf:inAll: in Core, and > AXWeakSubscription in AXAnnouncements on SqueakSource) have used this as > a poor mans replacement for ephemerons. > The problem is it does not work the way these senders expect (ie: > registering an action for each resource to be taken when the receiver is > finalized), but only executes the last action registered for an object. > > Would it be an idea to change the implementation to conform to the > expectations of the senders, rather than considering the uses as bugs, > seeing as how that seems to be the common usage? (And a quite more > useful one in the absence of real ephemerons, if you ask me)
Changing for better :) BTW we should remove the old and not used algorithm left from the browser supporting traits required methods. I hope that when adrian is settle down he will give that code a kick. :) Stef _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
