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reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Is this a good way to make a weak reference to an object?
Am I missing anything?  The little unittest seems to work.

It would be nice if something like this were in the standard library so 
I wouldn't have to worry about using the undocumented notifyRegister and 
notifyUnRegister methods.

--bb
Jan 21 2008
next sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:
 Is this a good way to make a weak reference to an object?
 Am I missing anything?  The little unittest seems to work.
 
 It would be nice if something like this were in the standard library so 
 I wouldn't have to worry about using the undocumented notifyRegister and 
 notifyUnRegister methods.
 
 --bb
Oh, and that's public domain if anyone wants to use it. --bb
Jan 21 2008
prev sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:
 Is this a good way to make a weak reference to an object?
 Am I missing anything?  The little unittest seems to work.
 
 It would be nice if something like this were in the standard library so 
 I wouldn't have to worry about using the undocumented notifyRegister and 
 notifyUnRegister methods.
 
 --bb
Looks like just a week before I sent this Tango got weak pointers. So now you can do a similar thing in Tango too. http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/forums/topic/341 BTW tango's names for the subscribe/unsubscribe functions are slightly better-named than Phobos'! rt_attachDisposeEvent and rt_detachDisposeEvent vs notifyRegister and notifyUnRegister They're not documented in Phobos, so it's not too late to pick some better names (or provide some better aliases anyway)! --bb
Jan 25 2008