From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Are symbols garbage collected?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:16:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d15dzq4t.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fua9n48o.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:49:59 -0500")
Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>:
> I thought they weren't but now I'm not really sure where I got that
> idea from. Does anyone know for sure?
I don't think the language spec says anything about any particular
object or object type being garbage collected. Symbols are first-class
objects and undergo the same treatment as any other object.
Marko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-23 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 17:49 Are symbols garbage collected? Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-23 18:16 ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2017-10-23 19:35 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-23 19:03 ` David Kastrup
2017-10-23 19:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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