From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:25:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191094046 4879 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2007 19:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: "Stefan Monnier" , "Joe Wells" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 29 21:27:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ibhxv-000666-BQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:27:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibhxr-0000iH-Vo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibhxq-0000i0-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibhxp-0000hP-G9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibhxp-0000hM-82 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ibhxl-0006DQ-Gb; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l8TJQhMF028921; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:26:43 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l8TJOab8031771; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:26:40 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-226.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3255634771191093928; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:25:28 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16663 Archived-At: > 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). >=20 > So I guess 3 is plenty indeed. In many circumstances where I=20 > could use this > kind of feature I prefer using (setq sm-tmp ) 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