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.
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@LionelBarrow 2) in UI frameworks, a view tends to need to know who its parent is1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@LionelBarrow (and, related, other trees like the DOM.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@LionelBarrow it's an interesting idea, though. It'd be cool if the lang forced the subsequent refs to be weak.
5:32 PM - 16 Mar 2014
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