Object ID's
Graydon Hoare
graydon at mozilla.com
Tue Mar 20 22:22:14 PDT 2007
Brendan Eich wrote:
> Would this be enough? If so, I think TG1 ought to consider it. It
> would be a small addition to the standard library.
This sort of thing -- either in app frameworks or the standard library
-- was certainly the purpose of adding intrinsic::hashcode. I hoped to
do a whole container library in the process of ES4, but it got shelved.
> Flash Dictionary users who rely on weakKeys = true should pipe up for
> the use-cases that require this.
I admit to not having considered that scenario. Perhaps a general
Weak<T> type would do?
-graydon
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