What would it look like to disallow circular references in a language? I'm struggling to think of a case where I (intentionally) use them.
@LionelBarrow 2) in UI frameworks, a view tends to need to know who its parent is
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@LionelBarrow (and, related, other trees like the DOM.) -
@LionelBarrow it's an interesting idea, though. It'd be cool if the lang forced the subsequent refs to be weak.
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