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Re: typo in guile doc?
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: typo in guile doc? |
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:24:10 +0100 |
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() Chengqi Song <address@hidden>
() Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:22:50 +0800
"By calling this function, the garbage collector learns
about all references that your SMOB has to other SCM values."
what is "has to other SCM values"? is it a typo?
Perhaps that object contains (points to, references) other
sub-objects. The SMOB's mark function must call (back to) Guile's
mark function for those sub-objects. In this way the collector learns.
If the mark function fails to do that, the collector remains ignorant.
thi