Use cases for WeakMap
Allen Wirfs-Brock
allen at wirfs-brock.com
Sun May 15 15:31:02 PDT 2011
On May 14, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote:
> I suspect i did suggest WeakMap but I think I misunderstood the proposal. I felt the goal was to prevent the key from being kept around forever even when the value was gone, I did not expect the key to keep the value alive.
>
> --Oliver
>
I think I've suggest in the past that what we are currently calling "WeakMap" should just be called "ObjectMap" or something like that. I can't think of any use case where object identify is used as a map key and you don't want the "WeakMap" semantics. Essentially "WeakMap" just means "NonLeakyObjectMap".
Allen
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