From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] RE: understanding weak
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:12:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5BA258F-8667-437B-8F8E-1BA8CC9AEF35@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EFD4D7AC6265F4D9D3A849CEA9219191AB114@LAXA.intra.cea.fr>
Le 30 oct. 08 à 19:48, CUOQ Pascal a écrit :
>> First, although it doesn't seem to be specified in the documentation,
>> I assume that weak pointers will *not* be reclaimed (e.g. from a weak
>> hash table) if the program retains some other reference to the
>> object.
>
> Exactly.
The documentation should be fixed, as it really doesn't make that
point clear. It says "A weak pointer is a value that the garbage
collector may erase at any time" and this isn't what you want if you
are looking for weak references.
Best,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 19:14 UTC|newest]
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2008-10-30 18:48 ` CUOQ Pascal
2008-10-30 19:12 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2008-10-30 19:35 ` [Caml-list] " Warren Harris
2008-10-30 23:06 ` Alain Frisch
2008-10-31 8:33 ` Rémi Vanicat
2008-11-01 1:08 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-11-01 10:37 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-01 15:18 ` kirillkh
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