From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Joe Wells" <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: RE: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:25:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICOEDLEAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhcldmit9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> ielm implements its own mechanism for it and it calls it "*", "**", and
> "***", giving access only to the last 3 values.
> I do use these occasionally (contrary to `values' which I've never used).
>
> So I guess 3 is plenty indeed. In many circumstances where I
> could use this
> kind of feature I prefer using (setq sm-tmp <exp>) and then refer to that
> value as `sm-tmp' this way I can reuse this value many times easily
> (whereas with `values' I'd have to keep track of the position within the
> list etc...).
Common Lisp has the same thing: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node181.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 1:27 frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection Joe Wells
2007-08-30 2:07 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-08-30 3:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-30 3:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.47.1188442895.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-31 15:15 ` Joe Wells
2007-08-31 15:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-31 15:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.116.1188575498.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <xnjir6tyj35.fsf@csb.bu.edu>
2007-09-02 2:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.115.1188574978.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <xnjhcmdyirv.fsf@csb.bu.edu>
2007-09-02 2:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-09-25 23:23 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-27 7:20 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-27 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1408.1190931512.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 14:56 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-28 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 16:50 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-28 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 18:48 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-29 16:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-29 16:20 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-29 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-29 19:25 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-09-30 12:55 ` Richard Stallman
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