Re: using finalizers

[Stefan Monnier]

> In Emacs Lisp, the semantics is: call this thunk when the returned
> finalizer gets collected.  So, if I want to finalize my object, I have
> too keep the reference to the finalizer.

That's right: if you want an object to have a finalizer, you need to
save that finalizer somewhere inside the object.
IOW the object literally "has a finalizer" somewhere inside.

There's no doubt that it's different.
Do you have concrete cases where this difference introduces a difficulty?


        Stefan