[Zope-dev] Pointer or reference object

Jason Spisak 444@hiretechs.com
Tue, 07 Mar 2000 19:50:11 GMT


Very interesting.  Sounds possible.  Hopefully they would have the same id,
because they stand for the same object.

Thanks for all of the the responses.

All my best,


Itamar Shtull-Trauring writes:

> Jason Spisak wrote:
> 
> > Sort of like a filesystems hard link.  When all references to a file are
> > gone, then it's deleted.  I like that approach.  Can we use Python's object
> > reference with Zope?
> 
> In theory yes - a programmer who works with me stored a reference to an
> object in a property, deleted the object - and the property still pointed at
> the object.  She did that by mistake - it was a bug, which she since fixed,
> but I guess that means it is possible.  If it's a good idea I don't know -
> there's issues with circular references and so on that may be problematic,
> plus both objects must have the same id.  Hopefully someone more
> knowledgable than I will say something on the list.
> 
> -- 
> Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net


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