[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] WeakReference support

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Have some built-in way to resolve a weak reference to an object (e.g. INTEGER(MyObject)) back to the object. Currently you can store the INTEGER value but to retrieve the actual object you need to walk the object tree (SESSION:FIRST-OBJECT, Object:NEXT-SIBLING) The benefit of weak references is that they do not prevent garbage collection. Discussed in: From handle to object? - Forum - OpenEdge Development - Progress Community OO Pub/Sub & Garbage Collection - Forum - OpenEdge General - Progress Community Weak reference - Wikipedia

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