On Dec 7, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> I'm spending an hour or two today going through Ruby's standard
> library, seeing what's in there.

That's one of my favorite pass times.  Are we uber geeks or what?  ;)

> What the hell is WeakRef used for?  How is that useful?

How about caching?  Build up a big cache for some process intensive  
values, but allow GC to clean house when it needs to because you  
could always refigure them.

James Edward Gray II