Re: [Chicken-users] Safely holding on to a <procedure> reference in C

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Safely holding on to a <procedure> reference in C
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:23:31 +0100

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:00:13AM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> > I think you can use object-evict for that.  It's from unit lolevel, see
>> > http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20lolevel#object-evict
>> 
>> I'm not sure eviction is the right thing to do here.
> 
> Interesting. Care to explain the reason that this isn't the right thing?
> 

Procedures may refer to shared boxes for assigned lexically referenced
variables. Eviction will break that sharing.


cheers,
felix