On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:39 am, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:

> The question is: Why dependents are weak-references? In my point of view,
> this make no sense.... I want that views are alive meanwhile the model is
> alive.... if I don't want this, I can use #removeDependent:
>
> I found that this functionality was changed in the changeset
> 3701WeakObjectFields-ar dated 11 February 2001.

Because most of the time you don't want to worry about doing removeDependent: 
all the time.

If you want different behavior, just pre-set the dependents to be a non-weak 
collection:

self myDependents: OrderedCollection new.

You may also want/need to re-implement myDependents: (see Model for an 
example) so that it doesn't use DependentsFields.

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Ned Konz
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