Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pika Scheme project announcement

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Clark McGrew <address@hidden>

    > This sounds a lot like the direction you were originally taking
    > GUILE. 

It is, in some sense, a "Guile correctional".

    > Is this intended to be included in existing applications as an
    > extension language?

Yes.

    > If so, are the possible hooks for optional conservative GC
    > marking based on the C stack and heap?

Yes (key word _possible_), but the design is such that mostly you
won't feel like reaching for them, hence it is not a priority to
implement them.  To put it vaguely, there's a firmer "firewall"
between Pika and an application in which it is embedded than Guile
had.

-t