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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



  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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