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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by rian on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:53PM (#7315410)
Weak ptr/reference.

Also I would say that it's very uncommon to do/need something like this so it shouldn't be cited as an reason for cycles to be generally handled.

Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by Guvante on Friday March 07, 2014 @05:41PM (#7363217)
I have done weak pointer logic, it is not pretty.