On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> ...I'm not sure that including a connection in a slot is going to be a good
> idea, though -- a connection has reference-like semantics, so you can
> end up with multiple objects pointing to the same connection, Also when
> an object is garbage collected the connection will not be closed
> automatically.
I'm not sure I understand your point here. Having multiple objects refer to
the same connection seems like a perfectly reasonable and useful thing, and
garbage collection should work just fine -- when *all* of the objects
referring to that connection are unreachable, then the connection is
unreachable and will itself be garbage collected. No?
-s
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