Re: an add-finalizer! by any other name

[Ian Price]

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

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Ian Price

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