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Re: an add-finalizer! by any other name
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Ian Price |
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Re: an add-finalizer! by any other name |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:39:30 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I had a realization yesterday, that our documentation misses the point
> of guardians. Guardians exist to allow finalization of resources
> without introducing concurrency. However if you pump a guardian from
> the after-gc-hook, as recommended by "GC Hooks" in the manual, a
> guardian is simply a finalizer, implemented in a roundabout way.
>
> Food for thought!
I could have told you that. I already implement an add-finalizer! in
roundabout way using guardians :P
--
Ian Price
"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"