Can someone explain what a "weak" vs (I am guessing) "strong" reference is? I have been struggling with Garbage Collection for quite some time now and saw this on another list: "You'll need to add an instance variable to process and modify fork to record the origin. Currently processes don't remember their ancestor. I recommend you create a special fork that remembers ancestry, rather than modifying the default fork. You will potentially accumulate a lot of garbage otherwise. Also, you might consider making the reference from a process to its parent weak to allow the parent to be GC'ed when it terminates even if it has children."
I, too, am maintaining parent/child relationships in my application and have just been doing something like:
Parent>>createChild |child| child := Child new parent: self. ^child
I am assuming, given my troubles, that this is NOT a weak reference?!
Thank you,
Rob