• Bill Baxter (6/6) Jan 21 2008 Is this a good way to make a weak reference to an object?
• Bill Baxter (3/11) Jan 21 2008 Oh, and that's public domain if anyone wants to use it.
• Bill Baxter (12/20) Jan 25 2008 Looks like just a week before I sent this Tango got weak pointers. So

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

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

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