[BUG] WeakKeyDictionary>>keysAndValuesDo:
Chris Muller
afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 22:27:13 UTC 2004
The following code demonstrates that keysAndValuesDo: will evaluate nil keys
that have been gc'd.
| d |
d _ WeakIdentityKeyDictionary new
at: 'hello' copy put: nil;
yourself.
Smalltalk garbageCollectMost.
d keysAndValuesDo: [ : k : v | k ifNil: [ self halt ] ]
I consider this a bug because it contradicts the notion that nil cannot be a
key in a Dictionary. Incidentally, keysDo: passes the test.
Wow, so does this:
Dictionary new at: nil put: 'my nil element'; yourself
Inspecting this even shows the nil in the Dictionary inspector! Has Dictionary
been enhanced to support nil keys? Maybe it isn't a bug..??
However,
Set new add: nil; yourself
"Sets cannot meaningfully contain nil as an element."
==
It looks like the solution is to override Dictionary>>associationsDo: in
WeakDictionary to:
associationsDo: aBlock
"Evaluate aBlock for each of the receiver's elements (key/value
associations)."
super associationsDo: [ : eachAssoc | eachAssoc key ifNotNil: [ aBlock value:
eachAssoc ] ]
Thanks,
Chris
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