Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 9:27 PM -0400 8/21/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > >I would like for Parrot to have some way of creating Weak References; I > >think that this is probably a vital feature. > > No, it isn't, and we've discussed this before. (You were involved, as > I recall) Weak references can be done entirely with notifications, > there doesn't have to be any special core functionality for them > outside a weak reference PMC type and general notification support. > > I'll wade through the rest of this thread to see if anything else has > come up from it, but if not then dig through the archives for the > last go-round and read what came of it.
Googling doesn't seem to find it: http://groups.google.com/groups? q=group:perl.perl6.internals+weak+references Shows only this thread. Searching for "notifications": http://groups.google.com/groups? q=group:perl.perl6.internals+notifications Shows this thread, and an older, apparently unrelated thread. -- $a=24;split//,240513;s/\B/ => /for@@=qw(ac ab bc ba cb ca );{push(@b,$a),($a-=6)^=1 for 2..$a/6x--$|;print "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]\n";((6<=($a-=6))?$a+=$_[$a%6]-$a%6:($a=pop @b))&&redo;}