Is circular reference between objects a bad practice?

Question

I have a Model that will \"carry\" (Model.validator) a validator instance with it, and I need the Validator to have access to the Model\'s attributes. So, what I have come up wi

Answer 1

It will not be a problem for garbage collection: any new Garbage Collector (>IE6) will handle circular references just fine!

It might be a problem though if you are doing recursive functions, or printing the object.

So the answer is: it is no problem unless you screw up yourselves :-)