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Postings from December 2000
Michael G Schwern wrote: > Hmmm... an object which contains a method reference which contains a > referent to itself. > Yup. I don't know why some people think that circular references are complex ;-) > > > Something like this would be nice in a class that creates method > > references--it would simply need to keep a list of referred objects, and > > have an explicit destructor that iterates through the references and undefs > > them. Of course, calling the destructor would be optional where no circular > > reference exists. > > Yes, you could keep a list/hash of what you created (as weak > references) and explicitly destroy them.... but I don't think that > would help. Consider the following... > > <following deleted...> > > Which doesn't solve the problem... and I don't have any better ideas. > No, neither do I. So far I've been undef'ing method references semi-manually (since there are specific event callback hooks in any widget, I just need to undef these), but this isn't Lazy. Maybe a flash of inspiration will come over Christmas...Thread Previous | Thread Next