Le 08/11/2013 20:35, Mark S. Miller a écrit :
> Please try -- such experiments are interesting.
I am :-)

> But even if this experiment is successful, I hope and expect that 
> we'll have weakrefs and post-mortem finalization in ES7. They are 
> needed for many other things, such as distributed acyclic garbage 
> collection (as in adapting the CapTP ideas to distributed JS).
yes...
Speaking of which, could you explain the use of proxyRef.get from the 
related example? [1]
At least in the executor function, I don't understand how the object 
could be still alive and why the call is needed.

David

[1] 
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:weak_references#distributed_acyclic_garbage_collection

Le 08/11/2013 20:35, Mark S. Miller a écrit :
> Please try -- such experiments are interesting.

I am :-)

> But even if this experiment is successful, I hope and expect that 
> we'll have weakrefs and post-mortem finalization in ES7. They are 
> needed for many other things, such as distributed acyclic garbage 
> collection (as in adapting the CapTP ideas to distributed JS).

yes...
Speaking of which, could you explain the use of proxyRef.get from [the 
related example?][1]
At least in the executor function, I don't understand how the object 
could be still alive and why the call is needed.

[1]: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:weak_references#distributed_acyclic_garbage_collection