From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Are symbols garbage collected? Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:16:18 +0300 Message-ID: <87d15dzq4t.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87fua9n48o.fsf@dustycloud.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508782609 4600 195.159.176.226 (23 Oct 2017 18:16:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:16:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user To: Christopher Allan Webber Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 20:16:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6hHB-00087A-L5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:16:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6hHJ-00084G-1k for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6hGx-00083x-Fr for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6hGw-0000gN-KK for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=34466 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6hGw-0000eq-CQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:16:18 +0300 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:16:18 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87fua9n48o.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:49:59 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14225 Archived-At: Christopher Allan Webber : > 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