From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How guile knows? Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:00:50 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030109141923.GA23577@kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl> <8765sxirir.fsf@becket.becket.net> <03011118254404.01603@locke.free-expression.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042488557 15196 80.91.224.249 (13 Jan 2003 20:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YAtX-0003wn-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:09:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YAso-0006SC-0C for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YAq1-0004eH-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YAo3-0004D5-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu ([129.22.96.25] helo=multivac.cwru.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YAlP-0003P9-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 19056 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jan 2003 20:01:12 -0000 Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <03011118254404.01603@locke.free-expression.org> (Lynn Winebarger's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:25:44 -0500") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1557 Lynn Winebarger 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user