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Re: scm_weak_symhash

Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:

> When something like `(define hugo 12)' is entered, the symbol `hugo'
> is interned in the weak symhash table. Since nothing prevents `hugo'
> from being garbage collected, this symbol may or may not exist, when
> the evaluator is called, no?

When you call the evaluator with a Scheme form that contains a
reference to a symbol, then the symbol is of course protected by this
very reference.