The literal string is part of the compiled method. Try:

    weakDict at: 2 put: 's2' copy

instead. The same is true for other literals.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Murphy-Dye" <brian.murphydye at mac.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:57 PM
Subject: WeakValueDictionary


> When executing the code below, I expected both values to be garbage
> collected, yet 's2' apparently isn't. Other attempts were using
> 'Smalltalk garbageCollect' and adding 's2' from another method (to make
> sure the block context wasn't preventing garbage collection). Any
> ideas?
>
> | weakDict |
> weakDict := WeakValueDictionary new.
> weakDict at: 1 put: Object new.
> weakDict at: 2 put: 's2'.
> Smalltalk garbageCollectMost.
> (weakDict at: 1) = nil ifFalse: ['at 1 not nil' inspect].
> (weakDict at: 2) = nil ifFalse: ['at 2 not nil' inspect]. "=> shows an
> inspector"
>
> Thanks, Brian.
>
>