Re: [RFC][Vote] Weakrefs

Hi Joe, On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:54 PM Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote: > Morning all, > > The vote for weakrefs is open: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/weakrefs > > Cheers > Joe > Just posting to clarify on my "No" vote: I am generally against having more features that (by design) introduce spooky action as a distance behavior, especially on references. The fact that this might be useful for tools like doctrine/orm is (in this specific example) mostly because Doctrine\ORM has a very leaky design concept (UnitOfWork) at its core, and most folks don't want to micro-manage it, but would rather defer memory management to the engine. While it is true that weakrefs introduce a technical solution for those folks, they also open pandora's box when it comes to managing in-memory state, and yet another code location to constantly monitor with the debugger, which is something that I'm not looking forward to. Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/