Re: Working with weak announcements...
Posted by
Stéphane Ducasse on
Feb 14, 2011; 8:57pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Working-with-weak-announcements-tp3305802p3305811.html
good question :)
On FHi,
> I'm working with weak announcements,
good we need that.
Igor was telling me that the right anwser are ephemerons (but for that: gc change is required).
Now it would be good to have first a solution at image level
> trying to make it work, and I have a problem in #on:do: protocol (or #when:do:)
> I try to explain:
>
> This method receives a block, not an object/selector, so I can't create a WeakMessageSend which is the appropriate message to handle in other cases.
> Well, the real question is... how can I produce a "Weak BlockClosure reference" who can die if receiver dies?
> I tried some hacks (really ugly hacks, btw), but fail completely.
> Any idea?
>
> best,
> Esteban