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Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes: > Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes: > > > [guardians] > > It's quite a schemy notion, really, being somewhat abstract and > > allowing you to implement all sorts of funky data structures. > > Yes, looks like a implemented something like a guardian but without > letting Scheme take control. I think the main feature of a guardian > is that it allows Scheme code (which normally can't be run during GC) > to cooperate with the GC. > > > There is a paper out there somewhere, but I can't remember where I > > got it (probably at www.schemers.org) > > Yep, I think I read that when it was first mentioned on the list, but > I would have to page the details back in. > Oops, the paper is actually at the scheme repository ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository/doc/pubs/guardians.ps.gz Since guile-gtk was the topic, there's a little problem compiling with gtk-1.0.6 (yeah, I know, but after a few years trying to keep a mongrel slackware system together, I'm mostly sticking with `official' redhat rpms... if I were to enumerate the number of ways I'd like to spend my time, sysadmin comes just before violent beating with a frozen tuna). It only requires a one-line diff, so maybe you could put a patch into the distribution (and a big 'yer on yer own' warning :) *** guile-gtk.c~ Sat Jan 16 22:13:51 1999 --- guile-gtk.c Thu Jan 21 03:28:09 1999 *************** *** 1996,2002 **** info.class_size = parent_info.class_size; info.class_init_func = NULL; info.object_init_func = NULL; ! info.base_class_init_func = NULL; return gtk_type_unique (parent_type, &info); } --- 1996,2002 ---- info.class_size = parent_info.class_size; info.class_init_func = NULL; info.object_init_func = NULL; ! info.class_init_func = NULL; return gtk_type_unique (parent_type, &info); } -- Greg