Re: [RFC] Add WeakMap
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:50:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Add WeakMap | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> This is a follow up to the addition of WeakReference in PHP 7.4.
> WeakReference is an important primitive, but what people usually really
> need are weak maps, which can't be implemented on top of WeakReference (at
> least, not as exposed in PHP).
>
> This RFC proposes to add a native WeakMap type for PHP 8:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/weak_maps
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>
Any comments on this proposal? Otherwise this could head to voting...
Nikita