circular reference

基本解释

municipalities may issue bonds to banks, creating a circular reference;
市政府可向银行发行债券，创造一种循环引用；
A circular reference is formed when two objects reference each other, giving each object a reference count of 1.
当两个对象互相引用时，就构成了循环引用，其中每个对象的引用计数值都被赋 1。
If you use the SOAP encoding as the message bindings, the circular reference can be easily represented by applying SOAP encoding rules on the cyclic graph by using the multireference accessors.
如果您采用 SOAP 编码作为消息绑定，通过在循环图上应用 SOAP 编码规则的多引用，循环引用可以很简单地表示。

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