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Re: GCing and Object Lisp
- To: info-mcl
- Subject: Re: GCing and Object Lisp
- From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit)
- Date: 17 Jul 91 18:03:06 GMT
- In-reply-to: hughes@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu's message of 17 Jul 91 15:58:43 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cambridge, MA
- References: <9107171558.AA08299@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu>
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In article <9107171558.AA08299@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> hughes@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Lucian Hughes) writes:
I have a program which uses object lisp (MACL 1.3) extensively
and I was wondering if anyone knows if object instances (i.e,
generated by "kindof") get garbage collected once there are
no pointers to them?
Yes, they do. If you try to test this out in the listener, make you
sure you take into account the readloop variables, *, **, ***, /, //, etc.