One of the uses of weak references in other languages is to keep a collection of all the instances of a class without preventing them being garbage collected. Obviously, this is not necessary in squeak.

On 7/15/08, Herbert König <herbertkoenig@gmx.net> wrote:
Hello cdrick,


c> All that sounds like "don't use weak reference" :)

.... unless you know exactly what you are doing.


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Cheers,


Herbert


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