In programming, a reference which does not protect its object from garbage collection
In computer programming, a weak reference is a reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector, unlike a strong reference. An object referenced only by weak references – meaning "every chain of references that reaches the object includes at least one weak reference as a link" – is considered weakly reachable, and can be treated as unreachable and so may be collected at any time. Some garbage-collected languages feature or support various levels of weak references, such as C#, Lua, Java, Lisp, OCaml, Perl, Python[1] and PHP since the version 7.4.[2]
^8.8. weakref — Weak references, The Python Standard Library
programming, a weakreference is a reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector, unlike a strong reference. An object...
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subject holds strong references to the observers, keeping them alive. This can be prevented if the subject holds weakreferences to the observers. Typically...
provides three forms of weakreferences, namely soft references, phantom references, and regular weakreferences. A softly referenced object is only eligible...
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implement weakreferences. If an object is reachable only through either weakreferences or chains of references that include a weakreference, then the...
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