18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
12:29 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:25:53PM -0600, Brian Downing wrote:
Weak references make sense to me, even for CLIM, because I really wouldn't want all the objects I've created in the REPL to persist just because their presentations still exist in my scrollback. That completely changes the semantics of working at the REPL. Maybe somebody who has worked on the LispM could explain what semantics presentations in its listener had with respect to garbage collection.
There is a story of a user nuking the readtable and then recovering it because several weeks earlier he had printed the value of the readtable. It was simply a matter of "scrolling up".
Groetjes, Peter
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