Re: weak references

>> I hope this will be more clear once the RFC is complete. I will then start >> a >> separate thread for official discussion. > > All I wanted was to point out that introducing such a thing might overly > complicate things for users not familiar with the concept...as the java guy > pointed out in his intro, even java-people don't know about the feature, > even though it's been around for 10 years > (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2006/05/04/understanding-weak-references). > I think that having to know and care about refcounts and zvals are more complicated than having an Spl class, which can hold a reference for a variable what can be destroyed to free memory. and there is a chance that people are familiar with the Weak references from other languages, while the zval approach only familiar for those that knows about php internals. so I think that from the userland POV, weak references are easier to grasp. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu