<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Florin Mateoc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin.mateoc@gmail.com" target="_blank">florin.mateoc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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There is no loop per se. #nextObject will always point to a newer
object than self. If we, at some point send #nextObject to a newly
created object, like in the case of a materialized proxy, this newly
created object is already newer than the sentinel and the chain will
never point back to before the sentinel. So once #nextObject gets
sent to the newer object, it will only follow the chain of objects
that are even newer than the former proxy, which is a finite bunch,
and when we reach the newest of the bunch it will return 0.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ugh. Whatever. </div></div></div></div>