[Seaside] Re: Why isn't this a weak dictionary of some ilk?

[Andreas Raab]

Lukas Renggli wrote:
> Squeak has no weak dictionaries that reliably works.

Can you say more about this? To what extent do weak dictionaries not work?

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> If you want you
> can replace this call with a WeakIdentityDictionary, but we found it
> less problematic like this.
> 
> Lukas
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, John Chludzinski
> <john.chludzinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> WAHalo class>>initialize
>> Halos := SeasidePlatformSupport weakDictionaryOfSize: 20
>>
>> SeasidePlatformSupport class>>weakDictionaryOfSize: aNumber
>> ^ IdentityDictionary new: aNumber
>>
>> Why isn't this a weak dictionary of some ilk?
>>
>> ---jski
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