[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> 
> IMO Weak references should be reserved for users who accept possible 
> consequential problems, but should never be used in standard libraries. 
> At least I'd suggest to make weak references subject to an compiler 
> switch, so that every user has a chance to disable them in case of trouble.

IMHO weak references trade one manual memory system in for a different
manual memory system. 

The hard part of manual memory systems, figuring out how a complex dynamic
structure deallocates (that is usually tackled by having a bit of design and
thought go into it), remains.