Talk:Weak reference

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It would be nice to include a description of Java's phantom and soft references here. -- Doug Bell (talk/contrib) 11:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Done ... with links to their own articles. Stumps 00:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, isn't using normal pointers as weak references in C++ with garbage collection libraries different semantically than using a weak reference in Java? I don't believe there is any way to tell using a normal C++ pointer if the referent object has been collected. Without this capability, a C++ "weak reference" can't be used for resource management. I don't know if this is the same for Python weak references, but I think all of this information would make an interesting expansion to the artice. -- Doug Bell (talk/contrib) 11:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)