[Python-Dev] just say no...

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Tim Peters writes:
>  > Yet another use for a weak reference <0.5 wink>.
> 
>   Those just keep popping up!  I seem to recall Diane Hackborne
> actually implemented these under the name "vref" long ago; perhaps
> that's worth revisiting after all?  (Not the implementation so much as
> the idea.)  I think to make it general would cost one PyObject* in
> each object's structure, and some code in some constructors (maybe),
> and all destructors, but not much.
>   Is this worth pursuing, or is it locked out of the core because of
> the added space for the PyObject*?  (Note that the concept isn't
> necessarily useful for all object types -- numbers in particular --
> but it only makes sense to bother if it works for everything, even if
> it's not very useful in some cases.)

FYI, there's mxProxy which implements a flavor of them. Look
in the standard places for mx stuff ;-)

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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