Hi,

Although I really want to work on stuff like DCC and writing CTCP helper functions for coloring etc., I think I need to address technical problems first.

AFAICT, the current implementation will leak memory (ie won't be garbage collected correctly) if users and channels are not removed (using remove-user and remove-channel) before all references to a connection object are lost/broken. In such cases, although nothing refers to the connection object anymore, the channel may still contain user objects and the users will still hold channel objects in their channel lists. In other words: they won't be gc-able.

I'd like to change the library implementation to resolve this issue. It will have some API consequences.

The idea is that even though there may be a very large number of users, the number of channels will probably remain limited (several 10.000s max) and that several thousands of hash lookups are fast. [I never run the library with more than 20 channels...]

So, I'd like to bring back the one-way hierarchy in the library by eliminating the channels list on the user object, replacing it by a channels method which serves the same purpose, but dynamically collects the result.

Most user and channel operations will need a connection object to be passed in to function correcly though.

bye,

Erik.