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From: Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gen gc
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:33:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15672.37824.572478.4973@blauw.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87znwnieth.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

rlb@defaultvalue.org writes:
> Earlier I thought you posted that object-address's docs say that it's
> supposed to return a value that's unique to the object, and I thought
> you also said that that the returned value was only ever used for
> display purposes (i.e. no one will ever say "give me the object
> corresponding to address N").  
> 
> If both of those bits are true, then all I was saying was that when
> you create an object, you could assign it a unique integer (from a
> counter) -- i.e. stick the integer into the object, and object-address
> could just look in the object and return that integer whenever called.

Most objects don't allow for places to insert extra
integers. object-address takes a general scheme object, and eg. in a
cons there is no room for an extra number.

> Of course if the object-address docs are wrong, then that's a
> different story.

Unless I'm mistaken, object-address is not standard Scheme, so we can
pretty much change the docs to suit our needs :)

-- 

Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen@cs.uu.nl   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen 

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-19 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-17 21:59 gen gc Han-Wen
2002-07-17 22:54 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-17 23:12   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-18 12:08     ` Miroslav Silovic
2002-07-18 12:08       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19  3:59         ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19  9:39           ` Han-Wen
2002-07-19 15:40             ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 19:07               ` Tom Lord
2002-07-19 21:07               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 21:32                 ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:33                   ` Han-Wen [this message]
2002-07-19 23:31                     ` Rob Browning
2002-07-19 22:58         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-18 16:00     ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-07-18 16:21       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-19 22:55     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-20  8:06       ` Neil Jerram

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