16.1Weak Boxes🔗 i

A weak box is similar to a normal box (see Boxes), but when the garbage collector (see Garbage Collection) can prove that the content value of a weak box is only reachable via weak references, the content of the weak box is replaced with #f. A weak reference is a reference through a weak box, through a key reference in a weak hash table (see Hash Tables), through a value in an ephemeron where the value can be replaced by #f (see Ephemerons), or through a custodian (see Custodians).