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Greg Harvey writes: > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes: > > Maybe the trick is to build a simple tool that catches mistakes in > > handing things to the collector. I suspect that some hacks to the > > freely redistributable version of lint that comes with NetBSD these > > days could be made to catch places where things weren't explicitly > > handled. > > > > Anyone have any thoughts? > > Instead of building something to find mistakes, we'd be better off > building something to do the work for us. Changing all of guile to use > exact marking would be quite tedious for a human, and if we can figure > out what does and doesn't need to be protected, why not eliminate the > buggy wetware? Well, I think that humans can be more intelligent about how they handle the exact marking and such. I think we *could* take a tool that found errors and turn it into one that helped with conversions, though. Perry