From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marking weak alist vectors Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:45:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87zmod5tjy.fsf@zagadka.de> References: <87y83z3vh5.fsf@laas.fr> <4371CF46.4010708@xs4all.nl> <87y83xkcq6.fsf@laas.fr> <8764r18r2j.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131576519 25992 80.91.229.2 (9 Nov 2005 22:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 23:48:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZyjL-0007Ch-Rf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:47:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZyjL-0006ZV-A7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZyhZ-0005wX-5m for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EZyhX-0005vR-De for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZyhX-0005vK-7q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:45:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.243.153.35] (helo=smtp2.pp.htv.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EZyhX-0004fQ-9M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:45:55 -0500 Original-Received: from zagadka.ping.de (cs181072157.pp.htv.fi [82.181.72.157]) by smtp2.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 20639296B76 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:45:54 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: (qmail 8340 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Nov 2005 22:45:53 -0000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <8764r18r2j.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:11:16 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:5386 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde writes: > ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: >> >> For instance, while >> testing weakly-key alist vectors "by hand" in a REPL, it occurred = to >> me that the weak-key pair would reliably die, *unless* the hash >> table was written (I mean using `write'): > > I may have struck that or something similar a while back. Mikael > explained it was a reference held in the print data of the output > port, or something. Used to detect cyclic structures, or something. > I don't think I understood why such a reference ought to persist once > outside the print, I'd suspect it'd be better if it didn't, if that > could be arranged. If I remember right, I have been in exactly this spot as well, but I couldn't really fix this. I don't remember why, unfortunately... --=20 GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel