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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:32:32 +0100
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Add WeakMap
From: benjamin.morel@gmail.com (Benjamin Morel)

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Hi Nikita,

After reading the RFC, I have no comments to make, but I just want to thank
you for working on this. I regretted a lot that this wasn't implemented
together with WeakReference in PHP 7.4 <https://externals.io/message/106373>,
as the use cases for WeakReference vs WeakMap are really narrow.

Cheers,
Benjamin

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 10:24, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi internals,
>
> This is a follow up to the addition of WeakReference in PHP 7.4.
> WeakReference is an important primitive, but what people usually really
> need are weak maps, which can't be implemented on top of WeakReference (at
> least, not as exposed in PHP).
>
> This RFC proposes to add a native WeakMap type for PHP 8:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/weak_maps
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>

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