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RE: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:25:41 -0700 |
> ielm implements its own mechanism for it and it calls it "*", "**", and
> "***", giving access only to the last 3 values.
> I do use these occasionally (contrary to `values' which I've never used).
>
> So I guess 3 is plenty indeed. In many circumstances where I
> could use this
> kind of feature I prefer using (setq sm-tmp <exp>) and then refer to that
> value as `sm-tmp' this way I can reuse this value many times easily
> (whereas with `values' I'd have to keep track of the position within the
> list etc...).
Common Lisp has the same thing:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node181.html
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- Re: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/28
- Re: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection, Joe Wells, 2007/09/28
- Re: frames vs. weak hash tables and garbage collection, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/29
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