[Newbies] What is a "weak" reference

[Marcin Tustin]

One of the uses of weak references in other languages is to keep a
collection of all the instances of a class without preventing them being
garbage collected. Obviously, this is not necessary in squeak.

On 7/15/08, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
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> Hello cdrick,
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> c> All that sounds like "don't use weak reference" :)
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> .... unless you know exactly what you are doing.
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> --
> Cheers,
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>
> Herbert
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