Re: [Chicken-users] Finalizers

[Zbigniew]

This baffled me at first as well.  I like to define a trivial macro such as
 (define-macro (v x) `(begin (print ,x) (void)))
and wrap calls such as set-finalizer! in it, when testing from the interpreter.

On 6/20/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
> > >Why is nothing reclaimed, and why isn't "(1 2 3) is dead" printed?
> >
> > The literal list is held in the interpreter history, because it is the
> > result value of the set-finalizer! call. Running this in a normal
> > program will work fine.
>
> Ah, so it does.  Thanks.