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WeakRef looks great -- I've wanted something like this on several occasions. Unfortunately, it seems to require a patch to the Perl core. Any possibility of a weakening function becoming a standard part of Perl?
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Re (tilly) 4: Building an object tree
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 26, 2001 at 05:25 UTC
    I don't know what the plans are for it. I think that the idea of a module was to give people a chance to play with the API before they locked an interface down forever. OTOH Perl 6 looks like it is heading towards true garbage collection, so WeakRef is probably going to be filling a need no longer felt.
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