From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: How guile knows?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:00:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0m4x1iv.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03011118254404.01603@locke.free-expression.org> (Lynn Winebarger's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:25:44 -0500")
Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@free-expression.org> wrote:
> Since modules have absolute names that can be typed in any time, they
> can't be garbage-collected any more correctly than global variable bindings
> (i.e. you can't because "references" can exist external to the computer's memory,
> in the future typing of the user).
> Unless I'm mistaken about the absolute naming, of course.
It's possible to create modules without adding them to the
conventional module namespace, using (make-module). (And if you know
how the module namespace is implemented, you can remove an existing
module's binding from that namespace.) So it is possible for a
module's reference count to drop to zero. I would hope the module
would be gc'ed in that case.
paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-09 14:19 How guile knows? Krzysztof Garus
2003-01-09 23:48 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-10 3:59 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2003-01-11 23:25 ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-01-12 1:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2003-01-12 1:57 ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-01-12 2:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2003-01-12 6:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-01-13 20:00 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2003-01-14 17:35 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-01-14 18:38 ` Paul Jarc
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