From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T08:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: doc patch: weakref.

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

> Some people don't know how Ruby's GC works, or even what a mark&sweep GC=
=20
> is. They wouldn't understand what the above means (maybe).
>
> "WeakRef is a class to represent a reference to an object that may be
> reclaimed by the GC. The WeakRef is invalidated when this happens."

That would be the best description of it that I have seen here. However,=20
none of the descriptions really say it clearly like: if an object is only=
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pointed to through WeakRefs, that object will be deleted.

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