From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-03-13T03:57:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on WeakRefs and ObjectSpace

Hi,

In message "Thoughts on WeakRefs and ObjectSpace"
    on 02/03/13, "Bob Alexander" <bobalex@attbi.com> writes:

|I've implemented my own experimental WeakRef that does what I've suggested (although I didn't implement
|the ObjectSpace ideas, which would be helpful). I'm also trying to implement a weak value hash, which is
|what brought some the these perceived shortcomings to my attention. By the way, since weak value hashes
|and weak key hashes are often needed and nontrivial to implement, they would be nice additions to the Ruby
|library (both Python and Java have them).

We're always open to the better implementation. ;-)

							matz.