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Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols
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Zbigniew |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols |
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Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:23:28 -0500 |
For what it's worth, I put a snapshot of darcs HEAD at
http://3e8.org/pub/chicken-darcs-20060410.tar.gz [3.2M]
On 4/10/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
> > Adding an extra slot to symbols would be pretty handy, and would make
> > it easy to implement different Lisps in chicken, but I wonder how much code
> > depends on C_SIZEOF_SYMBOL being 3....
> >
> > Anyway, give the patch a try, please.
>
> At the risk of sounding like an ingrate, I don't want to try this, as
> setting up darcs on my system looks to be more trouble than it's worth.
> (I hope someone else will try it, though, who already has the current
> HEAD available: applying classic diffs to anything but the version they
> were made from is just too dangerous).
>
> I was exploring an alternative mechanism using a global hash table, but I
> need the hash table to handle uninterned symbols (which are potentially
> garbage collected) properly, and -- contrary to the documentation --
> a symbol cannot be wrapped in a (strong or weak) locative. Can this
> be fixed? Presumably the change to Chicken would be much less drastic.
>
> --
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- [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, John Cowan, 2006/04/01
- Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, felix winkelmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, John Cowan, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, felix winkelmann, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, John Cowan, 2006/04/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] Adding a free slot to Chicken symbols, felix winkelmann, 2006/04/11